Psychotherapy by nurses--some special characteristics.
On an inpatient drug dependency unit, the nursing role was recently extended to include structured individual interviews. Each new patient was allocated to a particular nurse. The success of the scheme is discussed and some of the difficulties encountered are described. A new framework, the Friend role and the Therapist role, is outlined and some benefits of the use of this framework are detailed.
D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009736:Nursing Process; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012380:Role; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*