Honderdtwintig jaar psychiatrische verpleegopleiding in Nederland

This article describes the development since 1883 of training nurses for working with psychiatric patients. Knowledge of this development seems to throw a new light upon the nursing history in the Netherlands. To start with, the vocational training system in psychiatric hospitals developed during exactly the same time as the hospital based educational system for so called 'general nurses'. As a result, both these vocational training routes were acknowledged as 'basic learning routes for nurses' in the Dutch Nursing Law of 1921. The general route gave access to Diploma A, the psychiatric route... Mehr ...