This article explores the findings of a study into the training needs of community psychiatric nurses. It highlights the need for alliances with service users, carers and voluntary organisations, as well as all members of the community mental health team.
This article explores the findings of a study into the training needs of community psychiatric nurses. It highlights the need for alliances with service users, carers and voluntary organisations, as well as all members of the community mental health team.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health problems, service users, staff development, teamwork, training, voluntary organisations, carers, community mental health nurses, community mental health teams, communication, education;
This role analysis was undertaken by conducting a postal survey using a questionnaire of largely quantitative design. The findings have implications for community psychiatric nurse caseload numbers, crisis intervention work, client group, community psychiatric nurse base, therapeutic interventions, research activity, use of the care programme approach, care management and primary care liaison.
This role analysis was undertaken by conducting a postal survey using a questionnaire of largely quantitative design. The findings have implications for community psychiatric nurse caseload numbers, crisis intervention work, client group, community psychiatric nurse base, therapeutic interventions, research activity, use of the care programme approach, care management and primary care liaison.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, interprofessional relations, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, older people, primary care, surveys, caseload, care management, care programme approach, community mental health nurses, crisis intervention;
The findings of a survey of out-of-hours mental health crisis services led health and social services commissioners to jointly undertake a major service review, explain the authors.
The findings of a survey of out-of-hours mental health crisis services led health and social services commissioners to jointly undertake a major service review, explain the authors.
Subject terms:
hospitals, interagency cooperation, interprofessional relations, mental health problems, mental health services, nurses, multidisciplinary services, psychiatry, surveys, community mental health nurses, emergency duty teams;
With the reduction of mental health beds, new services are evolving to offer 24-hour intensive care in the community for those who would otherwise have been admitted. Describes the evaluation of a pilot community treatment team in Cornwall.
With the reduction of mental health beds, new services are evolving to offer 24-hour intensive care in the community for those who would otherwise have been admitted. Describes the evaluation of a pilot community treatment team in Cornwall.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health, mental health problems, occupational therapists, severe mental health problems, social workers, community care, community mental health nurses, community mental health services, evaluation, general practitioners;
Prison Service Journal, 95, September 1994, pp.42-45.
Publisher:
Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
In North Humberside, a diversion project has been developed by a multi-agency steering group chaired by the Director of North Humberside MIND. The steering group manages, via a small management sub-group, a project team, comprising a probation officer, an approved social worker and two community psychiatric nurses. They assess persons in police custody and prisoners at court. When mentally disordered offenders are identified they will arrange a package of care.
In North Humberside, a diversion project has been developed by a multi-agency steering group chaired by the Director of North Humberside MIND. The steering group manages, via a small management sub-group, a project team, comprising a probation officer, an approved social worker and two community psychiatric nurses. They assess persons in police custody and prisoners at court. When mentally disordered offenders are identified they will arrange a package of care.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health, mental health problems, offenders, police, probation service, psychiatric social work, prisons, severe mental health problems, social care provision, approved social workers, community care, community mental health nurses, diversion;
Includes papers on: teamwork among professionals involved with disturbed families; integrating hospital and community services; policy and finance for community care; primary health care; day care and rehabilitation services; community care, community compulsion and the law; the role of the voluntary sector; managing the psychiatric emergency in the community; interventions with long-term clients; coping with drug and alcohol misuse; shifting into community focus; dealing with psychosis in families; liaison psychiatry and primary health care settings; long-term medication and the responsibilities of the team; daily living skills for clients in the community; support for community psychiatric nurses in multidisciplinary teams; principles of evaluation; evaluating community services; and multidisciplinary care in the community for users with mental health problems - guidelines for the future.
Includes papers on: teamwork among professionals involved with disturbed families; integrating hospital and community services; policy and finance for community care; primary health care; day care and rehabilitation services; community care, community compulsion and the law; the role of the voluntary sector; managing the psychiatric emergency in the community; interventions with long-term clients; coping with drug and alcohol misuse; shifting into community focus; dealing with psychosis in families; liaison psychiatry and primary health care settings; long-term medication and the responsibilities of the team; daily living skills for clients in the community; support for community psychiatric nurses in multidisciplinary teams; principles of evaluation; evaluating community services; and multidisciplinary care in the community for users with mental health problems - guidelines for the future.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, joint working, law, intervention, medication, long term care, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, patients, psychiatry, primary care, rehabilitation, residential care, teamwork, voluntary organisations, assertive outreach, alcohol misuse, community care, community mental health nurses, community mental health services, community mental health teams, day services, drug misuse, families, evaluation;