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Prescribing community psychiatric nurses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Chris Fear
Affiliation:
North Wales Hospital, Denbigh, Clwyd LL16 5SS
Greg Wilkinson
Affiliation:
The London Hospital Medical College, London E1 2AD
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Community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) fulfil an important role in caring for people with mental disorders in the community. They provide a monitoring and information service for patients and relatives and form a link between general practitioners (GPs) and psychiatrists. Some CPNs provide advice to GPs about prescribing psychotropic drugs. We studied the extent of this activity in a geographically-defined district and the views of GPs, CPNs and psychiatrists towards it.

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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

References

Report of the Advisory Group on Nurse Prescribing (1989) London: Department of Health.Google Scholar
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