Nursing psychology refers to the study of the occurrence, development and change of individual psychological activities under the specific social life conditions of nursing situation from the perspective of the interaction between nursing situation and individual. The "individual" referred to in this definition is the research object of nursing psychology, including nurses and patients. That is to say, nursing psychology should not only study the law of individual psychological activities of "patients" but also the law of individual psychological activities of "nurses" in nursing situations, and the two cannot be neglected.

Nursing psychology promotes the reform of nursing system

Nursing work, like other medical work, is also restricted by a certain medical model. Looking back on the history of nursing science in China and investigating the present situation of nursing field, we can see that nursing work in China is basically in the norm of biomedical model and functional nursing is implemented. According to the different functions of the human body, the operation and nursing system originated from the industrial assembly line system. Some of them are responsible for taking temperature, some are responsible for counting pulse, some are responsible for injection, and some are responsible for delivering medicine.