Biography:
Maryam Davari was born and raised in Iran and moved to Sweden in 1992. I am a specialist psychiatric nurse and have worked in Stockholm’s only emergency ward for eight years. I then worked in a psychiatric clinic for four years and was the department manager for two years. I am fully trained in both CBT and psychodynamic therapy, and am currently working as a Schema therapist in a general psychiatric outpatient clinic as well as in my own clinic.
Abstract:
Presetened here is an overview of the typical working conditions and evironment within a modern Swedish psychiatric department from the viewpoint of a specialist psychiatric nurse and manager. Successful treatment of psychiatric patients begins not with sophisticated therapy or detailed plans of medication, but with two fundamental imperatives. Firstly, a psychiatric department must be well-organised with routines that well understood and whose documentation is accessible to all staff. Secondly, a psychiatric department must engage in human contact. Respect for the patient, compassion for his or her suffering, and understanding of the over-arching conditions are as crucial for the patient’s care as any medicine, and help the patient work with, and not against, any treatments. Building a successful psychiatric department means laying a solid foundation for patient well-being, and greeting them with a knowledgeable, efficient and and above-all compassionate envrionment in which their needs can be addressed.