SIGNIFICANCE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN NURSING:
Why Nursing students has to study Psychology?
- Psychology helps Nursing students to understand themselves:
- Psychology helps in studying Human Behavior: Thus, any field that involves dealing with human beings will gain much ideas from the subject psychology and it will help I improving the service and benefits in such fields. Example: many service-oriented industries take the aspects of psychology to understand their customers, client’s satisfaction and various aspects of human behavior are helping them understand the ways to improve their business or any other filed in which psychology aspects are used.
- Psychology helps in understanding Patients better and thei
- r behavior:
- Psychology helps nurse in communicating with different people:
- from different places, with different situations,
- Psychology help in developing leadership skills
- Psychology is the subject which connects with many other disciplines: any field for that matter which is involved with human beings in one or the other way it draws the connection with Psychology.
- Psychology helps in improving the awareness about the mental health: mental health awareness has increased since two decades than before and along with that the psychology as subject also has become the part of many curriculum and also the application of psychology to understand human behavior has increased drastically.
- Example: employee concerns are taken as important aspect to build the business, appreciating the employees for their hard work, providing different benefits for customers, similarly in-service oriented fields like hospitals customer or client satisfaction is taken as the prime factor to improve the quality of care in such we can see that the psychology as a subject contributing.