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Perceptions of mental health nurses toward caring for suicidal hospital inpatients in Saudi Arabia

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Pages 1166-1175 | Published online: 07 Aug 2020
 

Abstract

Saudi nurse perceptions of suicide and its effect on their professional and personal lives have not been sufficiently discussed. This study aims to explore related mental health nurse experiences. A phenomenological qualitative inquiry of 20 practicing mental health nurses in one focus group provided data which were subjected to member and peer checking and NVivo software to extract five themes: nurse experience of patient suicide, expressed feelings, psychological responses, the effect on practice, and support. This study illuminated aspects of emotional labor of nurses and perceptions of caring for suicidal patients in Saudi Arabia.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank the Deanship of Scientific Research, College of Nursing Research Centre at King Saud University for funding this research.

Disclosure statement

The author declares no conflicts of interest.

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