Abstract
This study was conducted to determine what the intra-hospital certified psychiatric nurses think about their practice. We performed a semi-structured interview with four intra-hospital certified nurses who had received the education in a psychiatric hospital and gave informed consent for this study (the participation rate, 50%), two of whom were men, and two women. The mean age was 38.7 years, and the mean career length as a psychiatric nurse was 11 years. The interview was performed for a mean of 25 minutes. The results were analyzed qualitatively and inductively, and six categories were considered common to all four nurses. Subsequently, the association among those categories was assessed : the certified nurses had felt [the improvement in their nursing performance] based on upgraded skill by means of the intra-hospital education program for nurses. Their improved performance was associated with [elevated learning-motivation] and [desire to instruct other staff members]. [Insufficient hospital system], despite their [improved nursing performance], resulted in [a dilemma in which they fail to become assertively involved], suggesting the need to approach such conditions.
