Mental health. Refocusing long-term care.
How to provide care in the community for clients who are suffering from a long-term mental health problem is a dilemma for mental health service planners and providers. Community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) are the ideally placed profession to provide care for these people according to recent reports and are a part of the multidisciplinary teams. This paper outlines how four CPNs worked in a unidisciplinary team titled the community support teams (CST) in Greenwich, taking secondary referrals exclusively from the psychiatric service and each carrying a small caseload of severely ill clients. The client input of the CST is compared to the generic CPNs' input who provided a standard CPN service to a wide client mix including long-term clients.
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D003152:Community Health Nursing; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012944:Social Support