Psychiatric nursing roles in a community mental health center.
We describe the addition of medication monitoring to the duties of nurses working as case managers in a day treatment program for the chronically mentally ill. The nurses used their medical and behavioral knowledge to form a more complete picture of the patient than either a visiting psychiatrist or a case-manager who was not a nurse could do. This improved the integration of medication and other patient management decisions. It also improved cooperation between psychiatrists and nurses, better using the time and skills of both.
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D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States