The case-history of a woman patient who has attempted suicide is used to illustrate the techniques of continuous observation. A sequence revealing the patient’s feelings enables the audience to understand them and also to share in the thoughts of the student who is nursing her. Later, in a group analysis, the Sister makes it clear that while text-book rules form a basis on which to work, real psychiatric nursing depends on the use of imagination to gain an insight into the patient’s problems.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
002372
Language
English
Subject categories
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Nursing - Study and teaching
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health education
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Mental health
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Mental illness - Treatment
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Observation (Psychology)
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Patient care
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychiatric nursing
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Suicide
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)