title: Nurture: the fundamental significance of relationship as a paradigm for mental health nursing.
abstract: 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.
authors: California State University, Sacramento, USA.
authors: Bonnie
authors: B
authors: Raingruber
mesh_terms: 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