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Other denominations
Nurse specialised in psychiatric nursing care; psychiatric and mental health nurse
Description
The psychiatric nurse lends assistance to the person, family and community to help promote and boost mental health, prevent illness and deal with bouts of stress and mental illness, as well as assisting the above in readjusting and finding meaning in said experiences. The differentiating features of a psychiatric nurse is his/her career orientation, which basically revolves around interpersonal relations between nurse and patient or patient groups. Makes use of this relationship as the main therapeutic work tool, initiating, promoting and maintaining a relationship based on mutual help between the nurse and the person, family or group receiving cares, for a specific period of time. During this period, the psychiatric nurse focuses his/her activities around the needs and problems of the person, family or group through the use of therapeutic knowledge, attitudes and skills typical of this occupation. A psychiatric nurse operates in the inpatient department (psychiatric hospitalisation centres, psychiatric wards in general hospitals and other units within the general hospital in which his/her advice helps other professionals to handle the patients' emotional disturbances) and in the community (outpatient care, day hospital, night-time hospital, daycare centres and in the home). This is the person in charge of psychiatric nursing care and of the nursing team which is made up of the psychiatric nurse, psychiatric nursing assistants, nursing care and postgraduate students in training, and nurses with an occasional involvement in the care process.
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