Multi Methodology – Research Methodology for Psychiatric Nursing

Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the specialty of nursing that cares not only people with mental illness or mental distress, but also aims at improving the well being of general population with preventive and promotive health services. Nurses in this area has to elicit challenging behavior with an emphasis on the development of a therapeutic relationship or alliance. Psychiatric nurses deals with thoughts, subjective feeling and perceived problems and emotions which are not visible, tangible and cannot be measured in its all dimensions by a simple numerical tests. It is generally agreed that quantitative research methodology is not sufficient for researches based on psychiatric Nursing.