2020 Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 1-8
This study sought to 1) uncover trends in research on nursing practice in relation to the 2003 Medical Treatment and Supervision Act, 2) analyze these trends, and 3) examine related issues in nursing practice. We used the Ichushi Web database to search for literature between 2003—the year of the act’s enactment—and September 2019. Twenty-six documents were analyzed. We categorized nursing practice into the following six groups: “care coordinator,” “interviews and orientations during hospitalization,” “confirmation of patients’ offending, deepening of their reflection, acquisition of awareness of their illness,” “risk management,” and “treatment after discharge.”
Challenges in nursing practice were also identified, such as, the awareness of nurse’s expected role within the multi-disciplinary team or nursing team, the implementation of nursing care based on care that deepens introspection of patients who violate the law, and the improvement of nurses’ abilities to express opinions.
Medical treatment based on this law is addressed as a policy in mental health care, and it is important to standardize the quality of medical care. In the future, a survey is expected to be conducted on the status of nursing practice at each facility.
