title: [The role of the professional nurse in the community psychiatric service].
abstract: The paper attempts to define the role of the professional nurse in the current psychiatric service. From an analysis of the practical training undergone by professional nursing students in community psychiatric units, it is clear that professional nurses who operate in the psychiatric setting require special personal attributes in addition to the necessary professional skills: these include attention and curiosity, availability, identifying with the patient's problems, the capacity to keep the right distance and control over one's own feelings. In addition, the importance of group work as a method of training is underlined.
authors.affiliation: Servizio Psichiatrico Territoriale, USSL IX, Torino.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dosio
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rigazzi
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses
vernacular_title: Il ruolo dell'infermiere professionale nel servizio psichiatrico territoriale.