Psychiatric Nursing
What it means to be a psychiatric nurse
Psychiatric nursing is a highly rewarding specialist nursing discipline. As a psychiatric nurse you will work with people who experience mental health illness or distress. Psychiatric nursing aims to work in partnership with the person, family/advocate to enable them mobilise their own inner recourses as well as professional recourses, in a way that promotes personal growth, maximum development of potential and recovery.
At the heart of psychiatric nursing is the development of an empowering therapeutic relationship with service users and family/advocates. The psychiatric nurse journeys with the person/family through their time of distress, and through the interpersonal relationship facilitates the person to find hope, healing, meaning and personal resourcefulness. Psychiatric nursing care is constantly evolving to meet the changing mental health needs of the people in Ireland.
As a psychiatric nurse you will work and care with people, both in community and hospital services. As a psychiatric nursing student you may expect to acquire a broad based education with particular emphasis on personal and interpersonal knowledge, as well as knowledge from nursing theory, social, psychological and biological sciences. The education programme provides nurses with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to meet the needs of the person and their family in an individualised, empowering and culturally sensitive manner.
The Philosophy of Psychiatric Nursing Education and Practice at Trinity College Dublin
The psychiatric nursing community at Trinity College Dublin are committed to developing a quality mental health service that combines competence and compassion within a culture of partnership, inclusiveness and best evidence. We believe that psychiatric nursing is the development of an empowering therapeutic relationship with service users, families and carers - a relationship that enables the person to mobilise their own inner recourses as well as professional recourses, in a way that promotes personal growth, maximum development of potential and recovery.
Open Day
Please check the TCD Admissions website for information on the next scheduled Open Day. We will have presentations on Psychiatric Nursing on that day here at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, 24 D'Olier Street. Please come along and visit us, the Psychiatric Nursing team will be very happy to talk with you and answer any queries about psychiatric nursing as a rewarding career choice for you.