title: Clinical specialist head nurse: managing toward primary nursing.
abstract: What is the role of the head nurse on a primary nursing unit in psychiatry? What if that head nurse is also a clinical specialist in psychiatric nursing? And what if this is happening in a small regional hospital where the concept of primary nursing is new, inpatient psychiatry is new, and there is only one clinical specialist in the hospital. The author discusses the clinical specialist in a management position and the benefits inherent in such a joint appointment.
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authors.lastname: Cooke
mesh_terms: D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D007857:Leadership; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000592:standards*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000592:standards*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011321:Primary Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*