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DOI: 10.1177/146642409011000402
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Psychosocial Rehabilitation: The Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

Abstract: The roles and functions of Nurses working in Rehabilitation Psychiatry are varied and complex, new challenges are arising out of historical and emerging contexts. This paper explores problems faced by the Psychiatric Nurse and explains some of the functions and roles that contribute to the rehabilitation process.

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“…The tasks of the psychiatric nurse have been investigated by various researchers in different ways. Whitfield and Gibson (1990) distinguished three kinds of skills of the psychiatric nurse in rehabilitation psychiatry: procedural, custodial and therapeutic. Yurkovich (1989) described 5 nursing roles in a therapeutic community: change agent of human behaviour, manipulator of dynamic environment, confronter of discrepancies, role model of expected behaviour, and demonstrator of leadership functions.…”
Section: The Tasks Of the Psychiatric Nursementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The tasks of the psychiatric nurse have been investigated by various researchers in different ways. Whitfield and Gibson (1990) distinguished three kinds of skills of the psychiatric nurse in rehabilitation psychiatry: procedural, custodial and therapeutic. Yurkovich (1989) described 5 nursing roles in a therapeutic community: change agent of human behaviour, manipulator of dynamic environment, confronter of discrepancies, role model of expected behaviour, and demonstrator of leadership functions.…”
Section: The Tasks Of the Psychiatric Nursementioning
confidence: 99%