The document outlines 12 principles of psychiatric nursing presented by Ms. Kiran Nayyar. The principles include accepting patients as they are without judgment, using self-understanding as a therapeutic tool, maintaining consistent behavior to build patient trust and security, giving subtle reassurance to patients, focusing on feelings over intellect to change behaviors, avoiding unnecessary increases in patient anxiety, maintaining a realistic nurse-patient relationship focused on patient needs not nurse needs, avoiding physical or verbal force which can cause trauma, providing individualized care by considering each patient's unique needs and strengths, giving explanations at the patient's level of understanding to reduce anxiety, and maintaining basic nursing principles of safety, comfort and individualized care.