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A naturalistic inquiry of registered nurses' perspectives and expectations of psychodynamic therapeutic care in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities.

RMIT University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Bundoora, VIC, Australia.
Archives of psychiatric nursing (impact factor: 0.9). 04/2010; 24(2):104-13. DOI:10.1016/j.apnu.2009.05.001 pp.104-13
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ABSTRACT Within contemporary inpatient mental health nursing practice, the psychodynamic model of care considered previously to be central to the nurse-patient relationship now seems a radical concept. It appears to exist only within primary care facilities and public health care practice settings. This naturalistic inquiry aimed to explicate mental health nurses' perspectives and expectations of providing psychodynamic therapeutic care in acute inpatient psychiatric facilities. Ten registered nurses working in acute inpatient mental health facilities were interviewed. Five themes emerged: a career for life, relating in a psychodynamic manner, swimming against the current, adopting a position of difference, and hopeful expectancy.

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Keywords

acute inpatient mental health facilities
 
acute inpatient psychiatric facilities
 
contemporary inpatient mental health nursing practice
 
explicate mental health nurses' perspectives
 
hopeful expectancy
 
nurse-patient relationship
 
psychodynamic manner
 
psychodynamic model
 
public health care practice settings