Psykisk helsearbeideres erfaringer med å jobbe i små kommuner i Nordland

• Published in: Nordisk tidsskrift for helseforskning
• Main Authors: Masvie, Toril Beate, Ytrehus, Siri
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2013
• Subjects: Mental health worker; psychiatric nurse; community; rural district; job satisfaction; Psykiatrisk sykepleier; psykisk helsearbeider; kommune; rural; jobbtilfredshet; Norway; Nordland; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/helseforsk/article/view/2561; https://doi.org/10.7557/14.2561

Abstract“Mental health workers’ experiences of working in small municipalities in Northern NorwayThis study addresses the experience of mental health workers working in small municipalities in northern Norway. The study is based on qualitative interviews and had special focus on how the context influenced their professional role and role as citizens. The informants emphasized both positive and negative aspects of their work, but the negative aspects were most prominent in the interviews. On the one hand they experienced high degree of independency and possibility of close relationshipsto the patients due to transparency, but on the other hand also professional loneliness. The relationship to the patients was multifaceted. The boundary between their professional role and the role as a citizen was difficult to maintain. The professional role couldaffect their private life and the role and relations they had in the community as a citizen. Some felt they had to withdraw from social networks and arenas which had been important to them.