Being Open to a Process of Learning: The Meaning of Joint Activities With Patients as Narrated by Nursing Staff in Psychiatric Inpatient Care.

Forming therapeutic relationships is considered important within psychiatric and mental health nursing. One way of achieving this is through social interaction when engaging in joint activities. However, introducing and using nursing interventions based on joint activities in psychiatric inpatient care has proven challenging.

Study Circles as a Possible Arena to Support Self-Care-A Swedish Pilot Study.

Today, issues related to people's mental health and well-being have been described as a challenge for society, globally as well as in Sweden. This calls for new approaches to mental health promotion. The aim was to evaluate the adequacy of its content and structure, describing experiences of study circles as a means of supporting participants' self-care and self-compassion.

Being Human Under Inhuman Conditions: Meanings of Living with Severe Dissociative States Involving the Experience of Being in Parts.

Severe dissociative states involving the experience of being in parts, typically associated with diagnosis such as dissociative identity disorder and other specified dissociative disorders, continue to be a controversial and rarely studied area of research. However, because persons with severe dissociative states are at risk of being harmed instead of helped within psychiatric care, their experiences of living with such states warrant further examination, while innovative ways to include them in research remain necessary. Against that background, this study aimed to illuminate the meanings of living with severe dissociative states involving the experience of being in parts.

Struggling in the dehumanized world of COVID-An exploratory mixed-methods study of frontline healthcare workers' experiences.

Aim: To explore healthcare workers' experiences of the changed caring reality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden.

Design: An online fully mixed-methods design.

Methods: A web-based self-reported questionnaire with fixed and open-ended answers collected data from March to April 2021, analysed in three steps.

Filling the Void: The Role of Adult Siblings Caring for a Brother or Sister With Severe Mental Illness.

Little is known about the role of adult siblings' caregiver role within the context of mental illness. Therefore, our purpose was to explore how siblings narrate their experiences of being the main caregivers of a brother or sister with severe mental illness and how they cooperate with their ill sibling and their family of origin. We used a narrative hermeneutic approach and performed a secondary analysis of two interviews of siblings derived from a study of peoples' experiences of hearing voices.

Caring through barriers-Newly graduated registered nurses' lived experiences in emergency departments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aim: To illuminate the meaning of newly graduated registered nurses' experiences of caring for patients in emergency departments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: A phenomenological hermeneutical study guided by Lindseth and Norberg.

Methods: In-depth one-on-one interviews with 14 nurses from five hospitals were conducted from March to November 2020 and analysed using thematic analysis.

Battling extraordinary situations and conflicting emotions-A qualitative study of being a newly graduated Registered Nurse in the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aim: To describe newly graduated registered nurses' (NGRNs') experiences of encountering stress in emergency departments (EDs) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: A qualitative descriptive study.

Methods: Data from 14 in-depth interviews with NGRNs working in an ED for 3-36 months after graduation was analysed by the means of qualitative content analysis as described by Graneheim and Lundman.

" Being mutually involved in recovery". A hermeneutic exploration of nurses' experiences of patient participation in psychiatric care.

Purpose: This study aims at exploring how psychiatric nurses' experiences of patient participation could be understood from a caring science perspective.

Methods: The design was inspired by clinical application research., which is a hermeneutic approach developed within caring science research.

"Walking Together Towards Freedom." Patients' Lived Experiences of Participation in Outpatient Forensic Care.

There is a general agreement regarding the significance of patient participation in care. In forensic psychiatric care, however, this appears to be troublesome because of the paradoxical nature of having responsibility; to give person-centered, recovery-oriented psychiatric care and to protect society from potentially dangerous individuals. The aim of this study was to describe patients' lived experiences of participation in outpatient forensic psychiatric care.

Nursing teachers' experiences of the process of recovery while participating in a group programme for reducing work-related stress: A qualitative content analysis.

Work-related stress is an increasing health problem among nursing teachers, contributing to health problems, disengagement and poor job satisfaction. Negative coping strategies impact on both teachers' and students' teaching-learning experiences. Several interventions have been developed to address work-related stress.

Navigating between Compassion and Uncertainty - Psychiatric Nurses' Lived Experiences of Communication with Patients Who Rarely Speak.

Caring conversations are considered essential in psychiatric and mental health nursing. However, some patients are more or less silent and rarely express themselves verbally. This can be challenging for nurses who also need to find ways of communicating with these patients.

A 'near-life experience': lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care.

Aims: To describe lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care and to interpret these experiences from an understanding of health as dialectical.

Methods: After approval from a regional ethical board, eleven participants were recruited from two organisations for people with mental health problems. Participants were asked to narrate about spiritual experiences and occasions where such experiences had come close.

Caring from the heart as belonging-The basis for mediating compassion.

Aim: The aim of this study was to illuminate nurses' experiences of mediating compassion to patients in the home care context.

Design: A phenomenological-hermeneutical approach was used.

Methods: The data comprised of texts from interviews with 12 nurses in a home care context.

Nurses' experiences of informal coercion on adult psychiatric wards.

Background: Informal coercion, that is, situations where caregivers use subtle coercive measures to impose their will on patients, is common in adult psychiatric inpatient care. It has been described as 'a necessary evil', confronting nurses with an ethical dilemma where they need to balance between a wish to do good, and the risk of violating patients' dignity and autonomy.

Aim: To describe nurses' experiences of being involved in informal coercion in adult psychiatric inpatient care.

Compassion for self and others as key aspects of well-being in changing times.

Compassion has been put forth as a core concept in caring science, although there has also been a debate over whether it is a nonprofessional sentiment or not. In this theoretical article, I reflect on compassion not only for others but also for oneself as being important for patients' as well as professionals' well-being. My reflections on compassion as being essential in caring are grounded not only in caring science but also in research from other disciplines, as a means of exploring why we need compassion in caring from different perspectives.

Being Mindful as a Phenomenological Attitude.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to reflect on being mindful as a phenomenological attitude rather than on describing mindfulness as a therapeutic intervention. I will also explore the possibilities that being mindful might open up in relation to nursing research and holistic nursing.

Design And Method: I will describe and interpret mindfulness as a state of being by means of van Manen's phenomenological method, using the language of phenomenology rather than the language of reductionist science.

A sanctuary of safety: A study of how patients with dual diagnosis experience caring conversations.

The prevalence of dual diagnosis, that is, the combination of psychiatric illnesses and substance use disorders, is high. As a vast majority of previous research in this context focusses on the effects of different treatment methods, rather than interpersonal issues, the purpose of the present study was to explore and illuminate in what way patients with a dual diagnosis experience conversations with nurses in an outpatient clinic to be caring. Five patients were interviewed regarding their experiences of caring conversations.