Stuart: Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing, 9th Edition

Chapter 02: Therapeutic NursePatient Relationship

Research Agenda for Evidence-Based Practice

The following are some of the nursing research problems raised in Chapter 2 that merit
further study by psychiatric nurses:

1. The extent to which psychiatric nurses possess the personal qualities associated with
being able to help others
2. The levels of openness, authenticity, and empathic understanding in student-teacher
relationships in nursing
3. The validity of Burgess and Burns description of reasons why patients seek
psychiatric care and which nursing approaches would be effective with each
4. The affective and behavioral patient outcomes associated with the nurses use of
personal space and spatial parameters
5. Valid and reliable instruments to measure the responsive and action dimensions of a
therapeutic nurse-patient relationship
6. The extent to which psychiatric nurses demonstrate the responsive dimensions of
genuineness, respect, empathic understanding, concreteness, and resulting therapeutic
outcomes
7. The extent to which psychiatric nurses demonstrate the action dimensions of
confrontation, immediacy, nurse self-disclosure, catharsis, role playing, and resulting
therapeutic outcomes
8. The most common boundary violations that occur in psychiatric nursing practice and
ways in which they can be anticipated and prevented

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