Applications of Behavior Modification in Nursing Practice

Psychiatric nursing consultation: a study of the referral process.

Organizing approaches to psychiatric nurse consultation.

Teaching group skills to nurse managers.

Planned and unplanned influences on the life of a small group, organization, or community by benefactors and strangers go on every day. Professionals and citizens will continue to develop new helping services and social programs so that those who are in need of personal, economic, or political assistance can receive it. There is nothing really new about individual and collective efforts organized for social justice

SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONSl

We developed a psychiatric nurse consultation service in our city and county hospital because nurses throughout the hospital often called on us informally to help with problem patients. Some general hospital patients under emotional and physical stress can be considered a high risk group for developing symptoms of mental illness during or following hospitalization. By working with and through their natural caregivers, the staff nurses, we hoped to prevent psychiatric symptoms or the development of an illness process. Since our interventions had been somewhat inconsistent, we decided to set up a more structured mental health consultation service to help staff nurses understand and work

Katherine Morrison

Papers

Help with problem patients. Mental health nurses as consultants to staff nurses.