Slater, Suzanne2012-08-312012-08-3120122012-08-31http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4234Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses are members of multidisciplinary mental health teams that address the assessment and treatment of vulnerable youth. The phenomenon of interest for this study is nursing's distinct contribution to a multidisciplinary team in this clinical domain. An interpretive description drawing on the perspectives of seven nurses and seven clinicians from the professions of psychiatry, psychology, social work, child and youth care, and registered clinical counselling provides insight into understanding nursing's distinct contribution (NDC) to multidisciplinary mental health teams that serve vulnerable youth (MMHTSVY). Six major themes and multiple subthemes were inductively derived. The findings make explicit nursing’s contribution to MMHTSVY in ways that are meaningful to the clinical practice.enmental health nursingpsychiatric nursingpsychosocial nursingaddictions nursingvulnerable youthat risk youthyouth at riskmultidisciplinary teaminterdisciplinary teammultidisciplinary mental health teampsychiatric mental health nursenursing's distinct contributioninterpretive descriptionconstructivisthealth managementspecial adolescent populationincarcerated youthThesisAvailable to the World Wide Web