Morire di contenzione: riflessioni di deontologia e di infermieristica legale sulla vicenda di Francesco Mastrogiovanni

Abstract

Talking about physical containment, in a nursing framework, means exploring a particular world, with many “I would like, but I can not”, that often speaks us about the moral and professional distress of the team involved in the “containment process”, because this, in fact, limits the freedom of the assisted person. And this limit of rights, jarring with nursing values, often represents a perceived “necessary pain” in different nursing settings.

Organizational asphyxia, lack of motivation about change, ineffective leadership, knowledge deficits, lack of role identities and awareness are often promoters of incessant dangerous conditions, which turn procedures from “necessary pain” into real crimes.

Francesco Mastrogiovanni’s story is, unfortunately, the proven evidence that the malign and uncritical customs have dramatic consequences