title: Educating nurses for primary psychiatric care: a South African perspective.
abstract: This article examines the meaning of Primary Health Care, and the implications for the provision of psychiatric care at this level. The authors describe how one nursing school in a developing country, South Africa, prepares nurses to function in a primary health care system, which fully includes psychiatric care. The results for the service, the community and the students are described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Natal, Dalbridge, South Africa.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Uys
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Subedar
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D003906:Developing Countries; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013019:South Africa