ABSTRACT
UNLABELLED: Nurses provide the psychosocial nursing care to promote the patients' empowerment. In spite of recognizing the importance of psychosocial nursing. The research reported here is part of a large study designed to explore the psychosocial nursing intervention strategies. This part of the study is focused on characteristics of psychosocial nursing care as identified by nurses. Research design was descriptive and qualitative. Subjects were a convenient sample of nurses who have more than 5 years experience and agreed to participate in this research. Data was collected through semistructured interviews. Data was recorded on a tape and transcribed, then analyzed based on Grounded Theory Approach. SUBJECTS: The number of subjects consisted of 39 nurses. The average age and duration of clinical experience was 36.6 years old and 12.6 years. RESULT: Sixteen of the characteristics of psychosocial nursing to promote the empowerment among the patients were identified; 1) respect the patients' decision making, 2) clinical judgment from multiple perspectives, 3) predictability, 4) flexibility, 5) classification of the patients by comparison, 6) monitoring, 7) relief from reality, 8) relief from pain and suffering, 9) enhancement of the patients' ego strength, 10) nurture of hope, 11) support individualized daily living styles, 12) encouragement of the patients'own problem solving abilities, 13) respect of individuality, 14) self-utilization, 15) self-control based on professional identity, 16) utilization of team power. DISCUSSION: Nurses choose from the sixteen dimensions of psychosocial nursing and organizing them in order to stabilizing the patients' conditions.
