Enhancing the Quality of Care Through Participatory Generation of Evidence

Mental health nurses worldwide face various challenges in their daily practice. Trying to reduce patterns of violence and coercion, enhancing complex therapeutic interventions, maintaining therapeutic relationships and building trust, managing diversity issues and identity crises and enabling self-determination and social inclusion are just among the most common ones. There is also a shift from inpatient treatments to integrated care models and from a paternalistic medical oriented approach in psychiatry to person-centred care focusing on empowerment and personal recovery. In addition to all of this, role development in nursing care and related changes in interprofessional collaboration, as well as digitalization and communication technologies, not only change the way we work in teams and therapeutic settings but demand new competencies from all health professionals. Therefore, advanced nursing practice and the generation of evidence are indispensable to meet these challenges and to provide a professional and scientific basis for nursing practice and quality of care now and in the future.