FOLLOWING THE EXPERIENCE OF A PSYCHIATRIC NURSING SUPERVISED TRAINING: CASE STUDY

Abstract

The psychiatric nursing care, although oriented by theoretical concepts, still becomes a challenging process. Nurse-patient interpersonal relationship in mental health requires from the professional the domain of the theory and the availability to deal with the other’s suffering, allied to the patient acceptance. The objective of the present research is to describe the mutual action experience in a supervised training period between an undergraduate nursing student and an adolescent in her first crisis of mental disease who was in attendance at the Psychiatric Urgency and Infirmary Units of an University Hospital in Ribeirão Preto, as well to reflect about the learning model. It concerns of a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, a sort of case study. It was used the interpersonal relationship process, including interviews with the patient and her parents in several moments of the treatment, through supportive techniques and explanations about the disease. The fourteen years old adolescent showed as symptoms of her disease, delusions, hallucinations and fear that she could not define. Her mother showed herself as a demanding person and with little affective proximity, while her father, even though absent, seemed to be more affectionate. The experience of attending the patient until her recovery from crisis, going through psychiatric urgency and infirmary attendance phases, showed to be a precious apprenticeship modality to the student and supervisors, while it made possible participating contact with mental health team work.

Keywords

• Psychiatric nursing
• Interpersonal relations
• Nurse-patient relations
• Clinical clerkship