title: A nursing perspective on mental health policy.
abstract: Major mental health reform is under way to better serve the needs of people with severe mental illness. Reform will happen faster if psychiatric nursing wakes up from its long sleep to focus on services, programs, and systems of care for this population and, in so doing, sets a proper place for the discipline at the health policy table.
authors.affiliation: Yale University School of Nursing.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Krauss
mesh_terms: D003155:Community Mental Health Centers / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D009315:National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.); D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States