title: Psychiatric home care nursing: managing patients in the community setting.
abstract: 1. Psychiatric home care is a cost-effective, feasible alternative to hospitalization. 2. Psychiatric home care nurses must possess psychiatric and physical assessment skills, genuine caring, and the ability to develop trust. 3. The role of the psychiatric home care nurse involves assessment of psychopathology and development of interventions that include educating patients regarding medications, psychopathology, and coping skills that assist them to remain in the community. 4. Autonomy, working collaboratively with psychiatrists, and learning from patients are rewards that psychiatric home care nurses experience.
authors.affiliation: Centinela Hospital Home Care and Hospital Home Health Care Agency, Los Angeles, CA 90056.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hellwig
mesh_terms: D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States