title: [Psychiatric nursing. The ideal and the practice].
abstract: Psychiatric services at primary health care level are far from ideal. Under present conditions the PHCN is relatively uninvolved. This state of affairs will change when a new model proposed by the authors is implemented. This model involves primary prevention programmes; training of PHCNs in the classification and diagnostic criteria of psychiatric illnesses; developing skills in crisis management, therapeutic intervention and behaviour modification; knowledge of drugs and their side-effects; multi-professional team planning implemented by the PHCN; and 24-hour consultation services by specialists.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Gagiano
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Venter
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000639:trends*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D013019:South Africa
vernacular_title: Psigiatriese verpleging. Die ideaal en die praktyk.