Educating nurses for primary psychiatric care: a South African perspective.
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.
Uys
L R
LR
Department of Nursing, University of Natal, Dalbridge, South Africa.
Subedar
H
H
Lewis
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W
D003479:Curriculum; D003906:Developing Countries; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013019:South Africa