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Psychiatric nursing roles in a community mental health center

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We describe the addition of medication monitoring to the duties of nurses working as case managers in a day treatment program for the chronically mentally ill. The nurses used their medical and behavioral knowledge to form a more complete picture of the patient than either a visiting psychiatrist or a case-manager who was not a nurse could do. This improved the integration of medication and other patient management decisions. It also improved cooperation between psychiatrists and nurses, better using the time and skills of both.

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  1. Robert E. Davidson Ph.D.
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  2. Robert Factor M.D., Ph.D.
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  3. Elaine Gundlach R.N., B.S.N.
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  4. Keva Adler R.N., B.S.N.
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Davidson, R.E., Factor, R., Gundlach, E. et al. Psychiatric nursing roles in a community mental health center. Community Ment Health J 24, 83–86 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00755055

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