Mental Health Nursing

Abstract

Nursing have roots in caring people holistically for health problems. Growing population with mental illness is making mental health nurses a crucial workforce for communities. Mental health nurses work in challenging and potentially high stress environments. These conditions increase nursing errors which are complex in nature and happen frequently in the care of these patients. Required high-quality therapeutic relationship is achievable by longer nursing experience, efficient and accurate communication and management skills of nurses. Professional relationships provide a safe, trustworthy, reliable, and secure foundation for therapeutic interactions; however, nurses face challenges in setting and maintaining relationship boundaries. Solution focused therapy is a new and popular model of intervention in mental health care. Here in this review, some actual findings related to mental health nursing published in the last decade in international articles are given below.