Qualities valued in nursing staff: a multiperspective study. V1.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
What qualities are valued in nursing staff working with women with Borderline Personality Disorder, from the perspectives of service users and managers of a specialist secure service?
IRAS ID
218094
Contact name
Joanne Ratcliffe
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Birmingham
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 5 months, 1 days
Research summary
Borderline Personality Disorder is a common psychiatric diagnosis among females within secure mental health services. Characterised by significant emotional instability, staff can often experience great emotional toil and find it difficult working with this client group. The quality of therapeutic relations between service users and staff has been associated with service user satisfaction in forensic services in general and staff play a vital role in the implementation of therapeutic treatment practices. This research aims to develop an understanding of what qualities are valued in nursing staff working with this client group in order to inform best practice in recruitment, training, staff support and supervision.
Service users and managers of female inpatient units will be interviewed on a one-to-one basis. A sample of 4 service users and 4 managers will be recruited from the specialist Personality Disorder service within the female mental health pathway in St Andrew’s Healthcare. The interviews will be ‘semi-structured’, meaning that whilst a set of open ended questions have been prepared to explore this topic (see Appendix 3) participants have the freedom to discuss other topics relevant and important to them, rather than being solely led by the questions. The interviewer will also have the flexibility to explore further any interesting topics that arise. All interviews will be recorded using a Dictaphone.
The interviews will be transcribed and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). This will involve the chief investigator reading the transcripts and identifying themes that best capture the essential qualities of the interviews, before grouping and considering possible connections between the themes. The themes will be described and discussed, and supported by quotes extracted from the transcripts.
REC name
West Midlands - South Birmingham Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/WM/0217
Date of REC Opinion
29 Jun 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion