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Phenomenological study explores how student nurses cultivate therapeutic relationships, indicating vital skills for effective psychiatric care.
Nurse-patient relationship is the foundation of nursing practice and is especially important in psychiatric nursing. This means that all healthcare workers including the student nurses should develop the student nurse-patient relationship. The aim of this phenomenological study is to know how student nurses develop therapeutic relationships within the limited time that they are exposed to in the psychiatric clinical setting. Considering data saturation, the researcher considered 20 student-nurses who finished their psychiatric clinical duty. Open-ended survey question was used in the study. The data were analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s theoretically flexible thematic analysis (TA) six-phase process. Based on the results, there were two major themes in the study including Knowing the Patient and Being Available, and four subthemes including Respecting the Patient, Accepting the Patient, communicating with the patient, and Overcoming Obstacles. These themes overlap and exist concurrently reflecting the experience of the student nurses.
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