What are the core competencies of a mental health nurse? A concept mapping study involving five stakeholder groups.

ABSTRACT: Mental health nurses aim to provide high-quality care that is safe and person-centred. Service users require individualized care, responsive to their preferences, needs, and values. The views of service users, mental health nurses, nurse academics, psychiatrists, and nurse managers about the core competencies of mental health nurses have not been explored. Our study aimed to describe and contrast the views of multiple stakeholder groups on the core competencies of mental health nurses. Concept mapping is a six-step mixed-methods study design that combines qualitative data with principal component analysis to produce a two-dimensional concept map. Forty-eight people participated in the study from five stakeholder groups that included service users and clinicians. The final concept map had e

SUBMITTER: Moyo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9322662 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature