[Young nurses grow. The pathways and experiences of nurses newly employed in psychiatry]. / Giovani infermieri crescono. Percorsi ed esperienze di infermieri neo-assunti in psichiatria.

Three years after the first interview to a sample of 27 newly employed Registered Nurses in the Department of Mental Health, a second interview was administered to the nurses still working in the psychiatric services (30% of the original sample had already left), to analyze any changes related to their professional education, experiences and expectations. 5 of the nurses still remaining would like to make a change, while the others (14) expressed very high levels of motivation and satisfaction. The structure of the educational curriculum and the policy of internal mobility in the different psychiatric services are seen as main determinants of what has been observed.

[The psychiatric education of professional nurses. What education for which nurses?]. / La formazione psichiatrica degli infermieri professionali. Quale formazione per quali infermieri?

On the basis of a structured interview of 27 professional nurses who have recently started their practice in the psychiatric services of the USSL 34 Ferrara, the authors analyze the difficulties met in the working place. Three main findings deserve underlining: strong perception of the inadequacy of the basic training provided in schools, the need of reference persons, even if reliance on "old" behavioral models may represent an obstacle to change, the extreme degree of disaffection with respect to the working environment which leads to a passive acceptance of the present state of things.