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Patients with mental illness experience dissatisfaction with their care due to lack of understanding and ignorance from the nurses. The nurses? approach might influence these patients' experience of their care. The purpose of the literature review was to describe nurses' approach in care of patients with mental illness. The literature review is based on an inductive approach and the result is based on 14 scientific papers, of which eight used a qualitative design and sex used a quantitative design. A simpler form of content analysis was used, which resulted in four themes: the importance of knowledge, preconceived perceptions, neglect and feelings of responsibility. Nurses' attitudes to mental illness are both positive and negative. Positive approaches include feelings of responsibility for patient care. Negative approaches include neglect and negative feelings such as distrust and fear. The result of the literature review indicates a need for more education about mental illness in order to reduce stigma and knowledge gaps among registered nurses in public health services. As many results articles were related to abuse problems the area seems limited, therefore more research directed toward other mental illnesses, is recommended.