Mental disorders and rehabilitative psychiatry has always been taboo in Philippine culture, and the subliminal portrayal of inpatients in media rarely helps. Media portrayal on the topic shows inpatients as encased in strait jackets in rubber-covered wards, cared for by similarly insane nursing staff. Consequently, this brings undeserved discrimination on the part of both the inpatients and psychiatric nurses. But, studies published abroad have pivoted the spotlight on mental patients, and it lead to the clearing of their tarnished names. Very few, however, have provided studies on the nurses’ camp. In effect, this leads to them being subject to the same discrimination, alone and unfounded. This paper aims to explore and analyze the individual experiences of select psychiatric nurses in a psychiatric hospital in Mandaluyong, Manila. Moreover, gathered data will be subjected to thematic analysis and categorization. And consequently utilizing the perspective of ‘grounded theory’, this paper would translate individual experiences into springboards for new theories …show more content…
By making use of the grounded theory, however, this research aims to make use of phenomenological data by treating it as a springboard, deriving and analyzing consequent themes, to come to surpass boundaries. Utilizing both phenomenology—as a research method—and grounded theory,—as a theoretical framework—the study can come to new conclusions that would appropriately and accurately explain the experiences of the nurses and the context that they are in. The use of phenomenology as a methodology gives way and allows the co-researchers to freely express themselves and divulge their personal experiences; a thematic analysis of their given statements allows the researcher to pinpoint and narrow down the