Geropsychiatric nursing consultation: a valuable resource in rural long-term care.
Psychiatric and geropsychiatric nurse specialists have the potential to positively influence the day-to-day care provided in rural nursing homes by acting as teachers, resource persons, facilitators, and role models to long-term care (LTC) personnel. The combined approach of training LTC nurses to train their own staff while supporting the application of learning with consultee-focused nursing consultation proved to be an effective and time-efficient method of improving the geropsychiatric nursing care provided in rural nursing homes.
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Abbe Center for Community Mental Health, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405.
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D000368:Aged; D003253:Consultants; D005260:Female; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008297:Male; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009735:Nursing Homes; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012424:Rural Population; D013997:Time Factors