Caring Practice Experienced by Psychiatric Nurses: Effect of Essence and Cause on Their Quality of Life
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2023) | Viewed by 425
Special Issue Editors
Interests: psychiatric nurses on caring issues including ethical perspectives; the impact of experiences regarding caring practice on the quality of life among psychiatric nurses at a personal and a professional level
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Interests: health equity; visiting nursing for vulnerable groups, family partnerships between nurses and families; supervision for community visiting nurses, and community-based participatory research
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Dear Colleagues,
Psychiatric nurses face less than optimal working conditions, as they work in stressful and demanding environments with high-risk and acute patients with mental health issues. This leads to increased psychological vulnerability. In the literature, psychological discomfort or distress (e.g., stress, emotional exhaustion, or compassion fatigue); ethical difficulties, such as ethical dilemmas or moral distress; and burnout are common stressors affecting psychiatric nurses' professional commitment, job satisfaction, and well-being. Patients who exhibit aggressive and violent behaviour against nurses create an unsafe working environment. Furthermore, psychiatric nurses face ethically challenging workplace situations, such as seclusion, physical or chemical restraints, and unpredictable suicide attempts due to the nature of their patients’ psychiatric disorders. These challenging situations can affect nurses’ quality of life, which is one of the major factors influencing the quality of nursing care and patient health outcomes. Assistance should be provided in the form of self or external support such as self-care or an official sabbatical period. Therefore, the quality of life of psychiatric nurses is a key issue in order to retain nurses working in psychiatric care settings and to better understand their quality of life.
Dr. Younjae Oh
Dr. Bohyun Park
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- psychiatric nurse
- quality of life
- job satisfaction
- burnout
- turnover
- professional commitment
- psychological discomfort
- moral distress
- ethical dilemma
- self-care
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