Integrating Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners Into Psychiatric Practice Settings.

Advanced psychiatric nurse practitioners' ideas and needs for supervision in private practice in South Africa.

BACKGROUND Supervision forms an integral part of psychiatric nursing. The value of clinicalsupervision has been demonstrated widely in research. Despite efforts made toward advancedpsychiatric nursing, supervision seems to be non-existent in this field. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to explore and describe advanced psychiatric nursepractitioners' ideas and needs with regard to supervis...

Innovations in Mental Health Care

The traditional means of providing mental health care (e.g. delivered in psychiatric facilities in face to face format) are not meeting many patient needs. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Mental Health Action Plan [1] lists two key objectives for improving mental health care: integrating mental health care into community settings and strengthening information technology. Patients are more...

Attaching community psychiatric nurses to general practice.

A scheme for attachment of psychiatric nurses from hospital to group practice in Oxford is described. One community psychiatric nurse can work satisfactorily with eight general practitioners covering a population of about 18,000. From analysis of a working year, it is concluded that this arrangement improves the care of patients in the community by providing psychiatric help at times when it wa...

Psychiatric clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, or the new practice doctorate: meeting patients' needs?

Looking in, looking out-increasing awareness of intentional self-harm in community populations.

INTENTIONAL SELF-HARM without intent to die involves complex health, psychological, and social behaviors. Over many years, an attempt to explain these behaviors has ranged from the supernatural with demonic possession to multiple explanations through psychiatry and psychology (Favazza, 1996). At one time, self-harm was believed to exist primarily in patients with mental illness. In modern socie...