Nurture: the fundamental significance of relationship as a paradigm for mental health nursing.
OBJECTIVE
Whether nature or nurture is the most appropriate paradigm for mental health nursing practice, education, and research.


OBJECTIVE
To present detailed information that nurture is the most inclusive and sustaining paradigm for mental health nursing.


METHODS
Published literature.


CONCLUSIONS
Psychological, social, cultural, environmental, biological, and experience-based problems are the root of mental illness. Mental health nursing must have a comprehensive paradigm that honors the relational nature of the nurse-patient relationship, the critical influence of environment, the importance of biological factors, and the way that narrative understanding and history shape behavior.
Raingruber
Bonnie
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California State University, Sacramento, USA.
D001689:Biological Psychiatry; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States