Journal of Psychiatry

N Oud

Biography

Mr. Nico Oud did his basic nursing training for mental health nursing (RMN) from 1968-1971 at the psychiatric hospital of St. Willibrord at Heiloo and his basic nursing training for general nursing (RGN) from 1971-1974 at the general hospital of St. Lievensberg at Bergen op Zoom. From 1974-1976 he studied as a full time student at the KHSV at Nijmegen, where he graduated with a diploma in nursing administration (N.Adm.) (post-basic training for nursing management / organization = 2 year at master level education). He worked as a teacher from 1976-1977 and became a charge nurse of a psychiatric admission ward at the Valerius Kliniek at Amsterdam from 1977-1978. Next he studied and worked from 1978-1979 as a supervised nongraduating student / psychiatric nurse at the Edinburgh University and Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Scotland (UK). From 1979-1986 he worked as a nursing director of a psychiatric hospital (Rosenburg) at The Hague and later of an institute for mentally handicapped (intellectual disabilities) (Sterrenberg) at Zeist. At the latter he was also deputy general director. He started a part-time study at the university of Maastricht for a Master Degree in Nursing Sciences (official Dutch title Doctorandus – drs), where he graduated in November 1991.He worked part-time as a night duty nurse at the psychiatric clinic of the Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC) at Amsterdam, and from 1991-1996 also as an educator / trainer / consultant at a consultancy / training institute for aggression management and since 1997 he is working as a nurse entrepreneur within a partnership (‘Connecting’) and within his own company (‘Oud Consultancy’). He is a co-founder and member of the European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group (EVIPRG). He is a member of Horatio (European Psychiatric Nurses) and organized the founding congress of Horatio: "Mental health in Europe: the contribution of psychiatric nursing practice and science", 22-23 March 2007 in Arnhem, The Netherlands. He is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Inernational (STTI) - Honor Society of Nursing (Chapter Aplha Chi & Rho Chi) and was member of its Global Advisory Council. At present (2011-2013) he is a European Region Chapter Officer and board member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Foundation for Nursing. He is a member of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN) through membership in the division Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (SERPN) He is a member of NANDA-International.

Research Interest

Nurses Aggression Attitudes