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Educating nurses for primary psychiatric care: A South African perspective

✍ Scribed by Leana Ria Uys; Hasina Subedar; Wendy Lewis

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Weight: 552 KB
Volume: 9
Category: Article
ISSN: 1532-8228
DOI: 10.1016/s0883-9417(95)80058-1

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✦ Synopsis

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.