EDITORIAL

NURSING AND PSYCHOLOGY

Nursing is a profession that is dedicated to the care of the human being, takes into account the different dimensions that surround it, integrating social, physical and psychological. This care focus on persons as human  beings more than the disease they suffering. This care involves the family, the community and the environment. The criteria for providing such care is based on understanding basic human needs of the individual.

Nursing is a dynamic profession that enables compliance with various functions such as administration, teaching and assistance. Each human care is the foundation of the art of nursing. The nursing profession is characterized for belonging to a multidisciplinary health team and therefore requires disciplines such as medicine, psychology, physiotherapy, nutrition, dentistry, among others, to provide quality care of human beings.

According to the above, Psychology is essential for the development of nursing.  Psychology is the study of mental processes, that include individuals' internal cognitive and sociocognitive (which occur in society and involves culture). The field of mental processes includes various cognitive phenomena, such as emotional and discursive, and also includes the structures of reasoning and cultural rationality.

Psychology  has many applications including clinical, this one deals with the investigation of the mental functions of people suffering because of various circumstances, it is research is  based on fundamental principles. The nursing uses the results of these investigations to improve the care of patients using psychology tools to listen to patients during their recovery process.

The deshumanization of the staff of the  hospital, may be partly a result of the relationships  between the patient and the nurse there is an intellectual and emotional barrier that involves a denial of the patient in all aspect of his personality. The nurse, sometimes by fear, others by lack of adequate psychological training, takes refuge in the patient's physical care, avoiding the global interpersonal encounter.

The essence of nursing as a profession, must necessarily take care of the individual  not only because of his suffering  but also for what he is. So far, no health staff has raised awareness about the importance of psychology within the hospital, with this knowledge the quality of care can be enhanced.

In this magazine you will find the differents situations related to infirmary and psychology but they are not so academic.