The so-called nursing psychology refers to the study of the occurrence, development and change of individual psychological activities under the specific social life conditions from the perspective of the interaction between nursing situation and individual. The "individual" referred to in this definition is the research object of nursing psychology, including nurses and patients. That is to say, nursing psychology should not only study the law of individual psychological activities of "patients" but also the law of individual psychological activities of "nurses" in nursing situations, and the two cannot be neglected.
Since nightingale founded the first nursing school in the middle of19th century, people have taken "protecting human health and nursing patients to make them in the best condition" as the important content of nursing work. With the change of medical model from biomedical model to biological, psychological and social medical model and the development of nursing science, the nursing system has changed from functional nursing centered on diseases in the past to holistic nursing centered on patients, and people are regarded as a whole with physical and mental unity.
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The branch of medical psychology that studies various psychological problems in the process of health care. Its main task is to use psychological knowledge and technology to meet the psychological needs of patients and promote their physical and mental health. The nursing objects are mainly old, young, sick, weak, disabled and other people with physical and mental diseases.
The formation and development of nursing psychology can not be separated from the continuous progress of nursing work. With the development of nurse education and the improvement of hospital clinical nursing training level, nursing, which has always been regarded as a skill, has gradually become a science, and its work content has also developed from simple life nursing to both specialist nursing and psychological consultation, becoming an indispensable part of the medical system. Nursing science involves the knowledge and technology of many disciplines. The theory and technology of psychology are its core.