Nurture: The Fundamental Significance of Relationship as a Paradigm for Mental Health Nursing

TOPIC: Whether nature or nurture is the most appropriate paradigm for mental health nursing practice, education, and research. PURPOSE: To present detailed information that nurture is the most inclusive and sustaining paradigm for mental health nursing. SOURCES: Published literature. CONCLUSIONS: Psychological, social, cultural, environmental, biological, and experience-based problems are the root of mental illness. Mental health nursing must have a comprehensive paradigm that honors the relational nature of the nurse-patient relationship, the critical influence of environment, the importance of biological factors, and the way that narrative understanding and history shape behavior.