Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Corso di laurea in infermieristica - Sede di Modena
| Thesis Title | The nurse in psychiatry: professional development and restraint |
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| Name | Bertacchini Elena |
| Supervisor(s) | Cottafavi Katiuscia |
| Academic Year | 2014/15 |
| Thesis type | Non research thesis |
Abstract
The right of being able to move freely, interpreted as the ‘ownership’ of one’s own body, is more than a right; it is the necessary condition for human life. Within certain limits, both criminals and those who are guilty of serious crimes are allowed to move following the jail’s rules. Nevertheless, this important right can be called into question by diseases, a state of mind altered by organic pathologies, alcohol and drugs or simply by ageing. Very often, over the past years, the physical reclusion of patients has been ordinarily practised inside residential structures and especially in psychiatric hospitals. This tendency to intern people, has many times been defined as “a procedure for the good of the patient” by those who should safeguard the individual’s health. This dissertation’s aim is to demonstrate the existance of an health care without ‘detention’ and consequently without the violation of human rights, where legal problems and ethical-code conflicts don’t exist through: an in-depth examination of the role of psychiatry, the healtcare assistant’s professional evolution and his (or her) role in psychiatry and of reclusions