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A Relationship‐Based Model for Psychiatric Nursing Practice
Author(s) -
Wheeler Kathleen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2010.00285.x
Subject(s) - nursing , psychology , psychiatry , medicine
PURPOSE: This article synthesizes research and theory in information processing, infant development, attachment theory, and trauma, and proposes a treatment framework for psychiatric nursing practice. CONCLUSIONS: The primacy of the nurse–patient relationship is central to healing, and elements of the psychotherapeutic relationship are delineated. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: This model has the potential to serve as a practice framework for psychiatric nursing, for all levels of psychiatric nursing practice.