Psychiatric nursing in Poland.

As the role of Polish nurses continues to expand, so does their need for education at the university level. This is particularly evident for nurses joining the therapeutic teams in Poland's psychiatric hospitals. In the new structure of psychiatric service being offered, nurses are not only doctors' partners in the diagnostic, therapeutic, resocialization and psychotherapeutic processes but also fellow promoters of mental health. They are needed as a source of new ideas and solutions as well as to initiate new forms of activities in hospitals, consulting units or whatever setting they find themselves.