A role for nurse psychotherapists: primary prevention counseling for general hospital staffs.
Providing a counseling and consultation service to general hospital employees through contractual arrangements is beneficial, and is an appropriate function for nurse therapists. Employees willingly use the service, and as stresses increase in the workplace the service can have a favorable impact on both personnel functioning and retention, as well as on the delivery of patient services.
D003284:Contract Services; D003376:Counseling; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D011322:Primary Prevention; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012380:Role; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy