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Mental health recovery, a core concept in contemporary mental health care, emphasizes that service users can pursue meaningful life goals by rebuilding hope, identity, and purpose even as related symptoms persist. As care has shifted from a biomedical focus on symptom control toward person-centered and community-oriented approaches, the mental health recovery process has presented challenges to traditional nursing roles and practices. Moreover, misperceptions of these approaches as psychiatric rehabilitation or illness management interventions have led to gaps between principles and practice. In this article, the relevant literature is reviewed to describe the meaning of recovery and its influencing factors, and measurement tools widely used to support nurses' understanding of recovery processes are summarized. In addition, the authors integrate their practical experiences in community psychiatric rehabilitation to reflect on challenges related to role positioning, intervention flexibility, and organizational support when implementing recovery-oriented care in practice.