Challenges of Nurses' Empowerment in the Management of Patient Aggression: A Qualitative Study (original) (raw)

Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research

Patients' aggression in the mental care setting is a global health problem with major psychological, physical, and economic consequences; nurse empowerment to manage this aggressive behavior is an important step in psychiatric nursing. The aim of this study was to explore psychiatric nurses' experiences of the challenges of empowerment in the management of patients' aggression. This qualitative study was performed among 20 nurses working in a major referral psychiatric center in Iran during 2014-2016. The purposive sampling method was used for selecting the participants. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, observations, and filed notes. Inductive content analysis was used for data analysis. Three categories and ten subcategories were identified: inefficient organizational policy (limited human resources, mandatory shifts, shortage of protective equipment, lack of motivational sparks); insufficient job growth (failure to implement training programs, in...

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