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Geropsychiatric nursing consultation: a valuable resource in rural long-term care
M Smith1, S Mitchell, K C Buckwalter
1Abbe Center for Community Mental Health, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
Psychiatric and geropsychiatric nurse specialists have the potential to positively influence the day-to-day care provided in rural nursing homes by acting as teachers, resource persons, facilitators, and role models to long-term care (LTC) personnel. The combined approach of training LTC nurses to train their own staff while supporting the application of learning with consultee-focused nursing consultation proved to be an effective and time-efficient method of improving the geropsychiatric nursing care provided in rural nursing homes.