Getting it, together: how the nurse patient relationship influences treatment compliance for patients with schizophrenia.

The importance of the nurse/patient relationship is a central concept for psychiatric nursing. The present research provides a model of the nursing process identifying aspects of the nurse/patient relationship that influence treatment compliance. Five expert nurses and 15 patients participated in the study. Data collection included participant observation, field notes, memos, demographic questionnaires, interviews with the nurses post observation, and a secondary literature review. The grounded theory investigation identified a substantive theory, Getting It, Together, as the basic social process. The core category of the theory is knowing, and subcategories are socializing, normalizing, and celebrating.