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  • Chapter 3 - Nursing in Consultation-Liaison Settings

  • Edited by Rachel Thomasson, Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences, Elspeth Guthrie, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, Allan House, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
  • Book:
    Seminars in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 32-47

  • Summary

    Liaison mental health nurses are the single largest professional group in consultation-liaison psychiatry. Liaison nurses frequently work as part of large, multidisciplinary teams but they regularly make independent admission and discharge recommendations. Liaison nurses require a large repertoire of competencies to fulfil such roles and understandably this comes from a variety of post-registration experiences. This chapter sets out the competencies required of liaison mental health nurses. The chapter also outlines the unique and important role a nurse consultant can play in a liaison team. Liaison mental health nursing continues to expand as a professional group within consultation-liaison mental healthcare. Mental health nursing has a workforce shortage, and this chapter also looks at how to develop or ‘grow your own’ liaison nurses by employing nurses at the point of registration and developing sound liaison nurses over a 12- to 18-month period.