Current Situation and Enlightenment of Core Competence Development of Psychiatric Nurses in China

With the progress of social civilization and the improvement of mental health awareness, the public's demand for high-quality mental health services has increased significantly. The complexity and professionalism of the mental health field requires psychiatric nurses to have a set of core competencies to ensure that they can provide high quality, safe care to their patients. At present, the overall level of core competence of psychiatric nurses in China is in the middle stage, in which the ability of ethics and legal practice is more prominent, but the ability of thinking and scientific research is relatively weak. The high scores of ethics and legal practice ability reflect that nurses in psychiatric specialties in China attach great importance to industry norms and patients' rights and interests. The lack of critical thinking ability and scientific research ability means that nurses' judgment and innovative problem-solving ability in the face of complex clinical situations need to be strengthened, which also limits their participation in nursing scientific research and the promotion of disciplinary progress. Drawing on the mature experience of foreign countries and combining with China's national conditions, hospitals should clarify the responsibilities of nurses, strengthen training, especially in critical thinking and scientific research literacy, build a supportive interdisciplinary work environment, and establish a professional certification system. In order to comprehensively enhance the core competence of psychiatric nurses, improve the quality of life of patients, meet the needs of high-quality mental health services, cope with the challenges in the field of mental health, and promote the field of mental health nursing in China to a higher level.