Maintaining patients with chronic mental health conditions in the community: a joint project of a college of nursing and a mental health center.
The College of Nursing and the Psychiatric Clinic are pleased with the arrangements described in this article for promoting healthy adaptation to the community for patients discharged from a psychiatric institution. Both students and patients have benefited. As our program continues we suggest other faculty and practitioners consider such a plan for patients returning to life in the community.
D002908:Chronic Disease; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D003479:Curriculum; D003688:Deinstitutionalization / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007484:Iowa; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education; D012579:Schools, Nursing; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology