[Nursing personnel in inpatient rehabilitation--work satisfaction, motivation for interdisciplinary cooperation and for achieving psychosocial competence].

106 nurses from eleven rehabilitation clinics were questioned by means of an anonymous clinical questionnaire on the issues of job satisfaction, interdisciplinary cooperation, and expectations towards future psychosocial staff training (main fields of the participants: orthopaedics, cardiology, dermatology and neurology). Two thirds were altogether satisfied with their jobs, primarily with regard to their relationships with the patients and the colleague nurses (76%), to some extent less so, however, with the doctors (63%). More than 90% expected psychosocial service to deliver feedback for the team and close interdisciplinary communication. Main expectations of psychosocial staff focused on the improvement of communication skills with strained patients, on improved psychological and especially psychodiagnostic knowledge as well as more functional coping with conflicts with patients and team-members (60% expressed marked expectations with regard to each issue). More than half of the staff indicated that they would prefer regular training sessions of one to two hours' duration, and more than 20% favoured each one-day- or weekend-workshops. The most popular ways of working in staff training were "discussion of team conflicts", "exchange of experience", "seeking emotional release", "discussing cases" and "training of communication skills" (approx. 60% each). Nearly 90% found "coping with aggressive patients" as well as "depression and suicide" to be the most important issues, followed by "ways of self-protection", "dealing with anxious patients", "coping with illness", "improvement of team-atmosphere" and "coping with death and dying". The findings of the study recommend an integration of psychosocial issues into education--and training--curricula for the various professions in rehabilitation.