Facilitators of and Barriers to the Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship: Perceptions From Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses.

Background: The therapeutic relationship serves as a cornerstone in psychiatric mental health nursing practice, providing a basis for implementing various interventions.

Aims: This study aimed to explore the perspectives of psychiatric mental health nurses regarding factors that facilitate and impede the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship.

Methods: A descriptive study was conducted among psychiatric mental health nurses employed at two community psychiatric hospitals in the northeast area of the United States.

Engagement among psychiatric nurses: Is it different? How and why?

Organizational success requires engaged nurses to prevent turnover and provide high-quality care. Here, the authors share information from a study that investigated engagement levels and the drivers of engagement in a population of psychiatric nurses.