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Trauma-informed care in acute mental health units through the lifeworld of mental health nurses: A phenomenological study
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Trauma-informed care in acute mental health units through the lifeworld of mental health nurses: A phenomenological study

Allyson Wilson, John Hurley, Marie Hutchinson and Richard Lakeman
International journal of mental health nursing, Vol.32(3), pp.829-838
06/2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13120
PMID: 36705234
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Abstract

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Trauma-informed care has gained increasing popularity in mental health services over the past two decades. Mental health nurses remain one of the largest occupations employed in acute mental health settings and arguably have a critical role in supporting trauma-informed care in this environment. Despite this, there remains a limited understanding on how trauma-informed care is applied to the context of mental health nursing in the hospital environment. The aim of this study was to explore what it means for mental health nurses to provide trauma-informed care in the acute mental health setting. The study design was qualitative, using van Manen's (Researching lived experience: human science for an action sensitive pedagogy. State University of New York Press, 1990) approach to hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry. A total of 29 mental health nurses participated in this study. There were three overarching themes that emerged; these entail: embodied trauma-informed milieu, trauma-informed relationality and temporal dimensions of trauma-informed mental health nursing. The study found that for mental health nurses, there are elements of trauma-informed care that extend far beyond the routine application of the principles to nursing practice. For mental health nurses working in the acute setting, trauma-informed care may offer a restorative function in practice back to the core tenants of therapeutic interpersonal dynamics it was once based upon.

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