I was RN for 20 years before becoming FNP, worked much of that in home health/hospice. There's no easy answer and really until you are the one prescribing and responsible you don't have the complete...
I see "client" as a more empowering term for the people we see and care for. "Patient" can be seen as a more dependent term where "client" is more reminding that it is there choice to see us, at least...