Outlines how four community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) worked in a unidisciplinary team titled the community support team (CST) in Greenwich, taking secondary referrals exclusively from the psychiatric service and each carrying a caseload of severely ill clients. The client input of the CST is compared to the generic CPNs' input who provided a standard CPN service to a wide client mix including long-term clients.
Outlines how four community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) worked in a unidisciplinary team titled the community support team (CST) in Greenwich, taking secondary referrals exclusively from the psychiatric service and each carrying a caseload of severely ill clients. The client input of the CST is compared to the generic CPNs' input who provided a standard CPN service to a wide client mix including long-term clients.
Subject terms:
long term care, mental health, mental health problems, monitoring, service users, severe mental health problems, caseload, community care, community mental health nurses, community mental health services, evaluation;