Self-Management Education for Bipolar Disorders: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Study on the Tacit Knowledge of Mental Health Nurses

Issues in Mental Health Nursing
S C G H van den HeuvelT van Achterberg

Abstract

Background: Self-management of bipolar disorder (BD) education is a complex nursing intervention in which patients and informal caregivers are taught to be actively involved in self-monitoring and self-regulating activities. Some studies question if nurses are sufficiently equipped to deliver these educational tasks. Other studies suggest that nurses have gathered their knowledge implicitly by experience, but to date, this tacit knowledge is not described from the experiences of mental health nurses (MHNs) in ambulant BD care. Objective: To detect the tacit knowledge used by MHNs by interpreting their experiences in delivering self-management education to people with BD and their informal caregivers. Methods: A phenomenological-hermeneutical study amongst MHNs (N = 9) from three ambulant BD care clinics in the Netherlands. Face-to-face, open, in-depth interviews guided by a topic list, were conducted and transcribed verbatim prior to the hermeneutical analysis. Findings: We found five categories resembling the complex character of self-management interventions provided by MHNs: Building a trustful collaboration, Starting a dialogue about needs and responsibilities, Explaining BD, Utilizing mood monitoring instruments, and Conce...Continue Reading

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