[Psychiatric nursing. The ideal and the practice].
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.
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D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000639:trends*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D013019:South Africa
Psigiatriese verpleging. Die ideaal en die praktyk.