Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Corso di laurea in infermieristica - Sede di Modena
| Thesis Title | Operatively The psychological consequences for emergency nurses: the Emilia earthquake |
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| Name | Pisa Beatrice |
| Supervisor(s) | Minozzi Cinzia |
| Academic Year | 2014/15 |
| Thesis type | Non research thesis |
Abstract
This thesis aims to examine the situations of high psychological impact and the major risk factors for emergency nurses and, at the same time, the best solutions, the most efficient techniques to avoid emotional break down and the rise up of chronic pathology. I have chosen this subject because I lived an earthquake event in an epicentral zone in 2012 and I wish I could become a professional nurse, so I have decided to examine the role of emergency nurse that always appears like a ‘machine’ that ‘saves lives’ but, in reality, is only a human person with feelings; I believe that if he is emotionally educated, he will be able to find a psychic balance.
Thanks to the consultation of literature, extensive reading of text books and evidences, in the first part of my thesis I describe the psychology of emergency in particular about rescuers’ emotional reactions and the disturb, acute and chronic, with which they may meet during their service in earthquakes event.
In the second part I investigate the way the nurses of Mirandola District managed the consequences of the earthquakes of 20-29 May 2012 and the psychological assistance to prevent troubles in their right performances. Finally, I am enclosing the Prime Minister’s Directive of 13 June 2006 to underline the importance of emergency nurse’s early training.