title: Exploring the experience of Canadian registered psychiatric nurses: a phenomenological study.
abstract: This paper describes a phenomenological study that was conducted in 2012 and investigated the experiences of registered psychiatric nurses working in the province of Manitoba. Ten registered psychiatric nurses participated in semistructured, audio-recorded interviews, during which they described their experiences, yielding written protocols that were thematically analysed. Results from this study revealed six predominant themes that included (1) perception of psychiatric nursing; (2) patient aggression; (3) patient family involvement; (4) nurse-doctor relationship; (5) responsibility and worry; and (6) shift in practice and educational standards. The results of this study can assist in better understanding registered psychiatric nursing practice, inform educational programmes, and spawn future research.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Studies, Brandon University, Brandon, MB, Canada.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Morrissette
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008350:Manitoba; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D015399:Nursing Research; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards
keywords: experience; nurse; phenonemenology; psychiatric; research