[Postgraduate training for psychiatric nurses: a bet for the future]

Today, our care environment in the psychiatric setting requires solutions to the issues of the shortage of nurses, premature departures from the profession, adaptation of skills to the complexity of care, integration of academic knowledge and replacement of senior experts. Nursing care is an essential pillar for the care of patients in the psychiatric settings and it is therefore essential to offer conditions to this personnel to guarantee the quality of care, the succession of nurses and professional autonomy for the implementation of good practices. The creation of a Certificate in advanced studies within the University of Lausanne offering a demanding training alternating face-to-face and e-learning is one of the responses provided by the Care Departments of Romandie.