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Research and educational resources about psychiatric nursing.
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Use this Psychiatric Nursing collection to compare research questions, settings, and nursing implications across 22 reviewed records. Start with the original source and limitations before carrying a finding into teaching or practice.
Among 204 eighth-semester students at Alexandria University, mean self-reported empathy scores increased from 52.47 to 62.64 immediately after a 15-week psychiatric nursing course. With no comparison group or delayed...
In this Egyptian study of 184 baccalaureate nursing students, most showed improved (less stigmatizing) attitudes toward patients with mental illness on the CAMI scale after completing psychiatric nursing and mental...
A 28-day feasibility study found that EMA text-message surveys combined with a wearable actigraphic device were largely feasible for monitoring suicidal ideation in 20 community-dwelling adults, with 82.05% average EMA..
This reflective case paper traces Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing's 40-year journey from a community college to a full university, describing how faculty built a culture of scholarship using Boyer's four...
Story Based Learning (SBL) is a Canadian-developed nursing teaching model that blends narrative pedagogy, case method teaching, and problem-based learning into a circular, six-phase process for working through practice..
This Canadian Journal of Nursing Research article describes the development of Changeons ensemble, a seven-session, web-based nursing intervention built using Intervention Mapping and the IMB model to promote physical...
A mixed-methods study of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in rural and northern BC found four key themes, resourcefulness, rural life, mental health and identity, and registration-process challenges, and used a...
This scoping review of 22 studies from 10 countries found that mid-career nurse retention interventions cluster into three themes, role satisfaction, work culture, and customized strategies, but their real-world impact..
An NIA-funded UCSF training program (Research Education Component) that mentors and supports emerging Alzheimer's-research scholars, including nurses, rather than a clinical study. It reports program structure and...
A funded qualitative study protocol that will interview about 16 hospital dementia care triads (nurse, patient, caregiver), guided by an implementation framework, to describe dementia friendly care and identify what...
A funded five-year mixed-methods proposal to test whether and when higher Medicaid payments improve mental health access and outcomes, using national claims data and interviews; it reports methods, not results.
A think-aloud study built a five-stage cognitive learning model of how nurses develop clinical reasoning from novice to expert.
A small qualitative study found nursing and pharmacy students valued interprofessional simulation and shed stereotypes about each other.
This qualitative study explores patient experiences with self-admission in psychiatric care, finding it generally fosters safety, autonomy, coping skills, and reduces emergency needs. While empowering, some struggled...
In 8,412 BC nurses, emotional exhaustion rose four-fold by 2020 even as quality and safety ratings improved.
A qualitative study of 52 Canadian nurses shows compassion, or its absence, shapes mental health, help-seeking, and return-to-work.
School nurses face escalating job demands driven by increasing student health complexity, chronic condition management, and expanding public health responsibilities. Often serving as the sole healthcare professional...
This study found that Emotional Schema Therapy (EST) and differentiation training both reduced emotional divorce among women. EST was more effective than differentiation training in lowering ED rates, with significant...
This study found significant links between perfectionism, early maladaptive schemas, attachment styles, self-esteem, and body image concerns among female cosmetic surgery applicants. A model where self-esteem mediates...
This study found that pregnant women who listened to relaxing music experienced less life distress and stronger maternal-fetal attachment than a control group. The intervention involved twelve 45-50 minute sessions of...
This study found that nurses at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital had good knowledge of Failure to Rescue but moderate competence in averting it. Crucially, there was a significant link between positive...
This study found anxious-avoidant attachment styles predict higher emotional divorce in Iranian women, while spiritual intelligence predicts lower levels. Together, these factors explained significant variance in...
