title: Maintaining patients with chronic mental health conditions in the community: a joint project of a college of nursing and a mental health center.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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