An Analysis of Canadian Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing through the Junctures of History, Gender, Nursing Education, and Quality of Work Life in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan

Table 1

Studies using a gendered, critical and sociological perspective relevant to PMHN.

Author and date	Purpose	Design/methodology/approach	Province	Sample size	Findings
Wall (2010) [20]	To critique nursing research on nursing practice environments using a critical sociological perspective; To propose a paradigm for future research	Review of research on nursing practice environments Sociological concepts are linked to variables in the nursing literature	Refers to nursing in general within the Canadian context	NA	Nurses’ job satisfaction can be linked to gender knowledge, professionalization, and organization not just management concerns
McGibbon et al. (2010) [21]	To reformulate the nature of nursing stress with regards to context	Interviews, participant observation, and focus groups with pediatric ICU nurses; Theoretical perspective uses Smith’s critical sociological frame of institutional ethnography	Study occurs within the province of Ontario	23 nurses	Six main forms of stress—emotional distress, constancy of presence, burden of responsibility, negotiating hierarchical power, engaging in bodily caring, and being mothers, daughters, aunts, and sisters