In psychiatric wards, nurses are an essential professional group in institutional and hospital life. In full hospitalization units for adolescents with psychological disorders, their professional identity is constructed in a… Click to show full abstract
In psychiatric wards, nurses are an essential professional group in institutional and hospital life. In full hospitalization units for adolescents with psychological disorders, their professional identity is constructed in a care approach, at the crossroads of care and education. Motivated by individuation and by a feeling of collective and institutional belonging in their care practices, this identity construction seems to be beneficial for the patients since it isĀ reinvested in the therapeutic relationship between caregiver and patient.
               
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