impact upon patient recovery. They summaries some research about this topic and highlight some important topics in relation to the focus of the article. The authors do not clearly state a hypothesis for this study, but instead present a research question and a purpose. The purpose of the study is to understand how patients and staff living and working on an acute care psychiatric unit experience the unit milieu (Thibeault et al, 2010). The team wondered how patients and staff experienced the unit milieu and wanted to know which aspects of the unit were to be positive and health promoting and which aspects were not (Thibeault et al., 2010). Study team members proceeded with the inquiry with the assumption that hospitalized patients with severe
