Stigma toward patients with mental illness by nurses

This study reports that both patients can have barriers to their care resulting from stigma toward their mental illness. This significantly compromises the quality of care that they receive and negatively affects the nurse-client relationship (Krendl & Pescosolido, 2020).

Health care and treatment are further compromised by nurses stereotyping patients with mental health issues as incompetent and difficult. It is this sort of stigma that compromises patient care.

Despite nurses belonging to a profession that requires a good deal of education and training, people with mental illnesses still face stigma and thus often face discrimination by nurses, which indicates that either more training or placement is needed prior to nurses being hired by hospitals.

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022022119901297?casa_token=vfhQ-IeFph4AAAAA%3AY9uOPCvYew4gIilLjN8wufkznkHpDA6yBjRmKYEO69ttYY2GgRW5BFsaB7iNtS7SNBIRVPHakeRreJ4