Background: Borderline personality disorder is a common disease in all nursing units and many nurses meet patients with Borderline personality disorder in their daily work. The nursing care of these patients require that the nurse uses everyday events to make the patient begin to trust other people. Nurse’s job is to try to guide the patient through everyday life.
Aim: The aim of this study is to examine how nurses experience their meeting with patients with borderline personality disorder.
Method: The method used is a literature study in which scientific articles are used as a base to the results.
Result: The result shows that many nurses want to have more knowledge about the disorder and they think that a lot of the problems surrounding these patients depend on how the organisation and structure in the units work. The nurses would like to have better structure to handle these patients and need the working units to have the same goals with the care. This is presented in five themes that affect the burnout of the meeting: Tutoring/Organization, Relationship, Experiences, Attitudes and Education, and Empathy.