Introduction: Narcissistic personality disorder is a complex personality disorder that requires medical treatment to be tailored to the individual's characteristics. The disorder is difficult to treat as it is chronic. The foundation of treatment is found in individual psychotherapy. Nurse is here to guide the person in the treatment process, provide support and assistance. The nurse's role is to guide, support and help the person in the treatment process. The nurse must also set goals that will help her work with person who has narcissistic personality disorder. Purpose: The main purpose of this thesis is to comprehensively present the field of narcissistic personality disorder and to define the role of nurse and nursing activities in process of treating a person with narcissistic personality disorder. We want to determine the most important activities that a nurse performs in the process of treating narcissistic personality disorder. Methods: In this thesis a descriptive research method is used with a systematic overeview of Slovenian and foreign scientific and academic literature. Time of article's edition was determined from 2011 to 2022. There were used 38 units of literature with help of searching databases CINAHL, MedLine, Google Scholar, through web portal of digital library of University in Ljubljana DiKul and PubMed. We took into consideration to not use articles older than from 2011 year, with exception to some of them to provide for relevance of the data, such as role of the nurse in treatment process of a person with narcissistic personality disorder, which were discovered years ago. Results: The nurse's role is not to cure narcissistic personality disorder but to encourage the person to participate in the process of treatment. When treating a person with narcissistic personality disorder, the focus is on treatment and on improving it's condition. Discussion and conclusion: The nurse's role is not to change the person's behavior, but a deeper understanding of this disorder and an appropriate approach and therapeutic communication can contribute to a more successful treatment and treatment outcome of this disorder. The activities that nurse performs with the person with narcissistic personality disorder have been shown to be beneficial.
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