Conference paper
AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR: NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP IN MENTAL HEALTH SETTING
Simona Moriconi
; SPDC Terni, Department of Mental Health, USL Umbria 2, Terni, Italy
Pierfrancesco Maria Balducci
; Department of Psychiatry, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Alfonso Tortorella
; Department of Psychiatry, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Abstract
Background: Mental disorder is known to be as a loss of existential paradigm; individual’s functioning is lacking in all areas.
Therefore, it is difficult to point out what the patients exactly need because their needs are set on a broad range of a difficult
boundary. The level of care that follows will be complex and multifactorial because nursing will challenge the interaction with the
individual as a whole: behaviors and relations with family members. At this stage exploring interpersonal conflicts, with past and
present aggression behaviors will be crucial.
Subjects and methods: Aim of this paper is to investigate the professional experience in a work context where the patient's
clinical condition poses a daily challenge from a physical and emotional perspective. Narrative investigation is performed here in
order to explore the psychological load of the professional's psychological experience and its implication in facing aggressive
situations. Moreover, this investigation highlights the importance of some professional and personal resources that can be made
available to the operator.
Results: These tools could improve the understanding of the subjective experience of acute events guiding the individual through an exploration of the phenomenology of what happened decreasing the intimate stress load.
Conclusions: A constant updating, the knowledge of de-escalation techniques and sharing the experience in dedicated settings
could be important allies in the management of risk events.
Keywords
nurse patient relationship; mental health; aggression
Hrčak ID:
262518
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Publication date:
24.3.2020.
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