By far the majority of key workers appointed under the care programme approach seem to be community psychiatric nurses.

She then returned to nursing as a community psychiatric nurse, specialising in working with families.

I'm dealing with it all because no one will pick it up, the community psychiatric nurse comes but won't organise anything.

It can be undertaken by other professionals including community psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists and psychologists.

He's prescribed antidepressants and he's arranging for the community psychiatric nurse to visit her.

Increasing the numbers of community psychiatric nurses.

Referrals to community psychiatric nurses are chargeable to the fund but those to social workers are not.

In rural areas community psychiatric nurses are more autonomous than their urban counterparts and all psychiatric staff have to travel to see patients.

The community psychiatric nurse comes occasionally - I never know when - and she sympathizes; nice girl but she doesn't actually do anything useful.

The number of community psychiatric nurses has increased, but nowhere in Scotland do their numbers approach those in many English districts.

These specialist assessments may be performed by a variety of mental health professionals including social workers, psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses, and psychologists.

In Ipswich there was a multi-disciplinary psychogeriatric team (involving medical staff, a community psychiatric nurse and a social worker).

The team involved a psychiatrist, community psychiatric nurse and social worker and used a family or network meeting of brief problem-focused intervention.

It is staffed by a team of community psychiatric nurses and a team of social workers together with psychiatrists approved under the Act.

She was also fitted with a hearing-aid and conciliation with the neighbours was engineered by a community psychiatric nurse.

Community psychiatric nurses are fully trained psychiatric nurses who have several years' experience working in a psychiatric hospital or ward.

As far as Ipswich is concerned, with the exception of the community psychiatric nurse, no one service was received by more than a minority of either sample.

Community psychiatric nurses provide a vital service to the elderly mentally infirm enabling them to carry on living at home through the provision of medication and support.

Visiting patients referred to me, and liaising with relatives and key workers, as well as neighbours, GPs, community psychiatric nurses, social workers.

In the United Kingdom a community psychiatric nurse is a psychiatric nurse based in the community rather than a psychiatric hospital.

William Edward Rodger, Lately Court Diversion Community Psychiatric Nurse.

In Newham the psychogeriatric services were very dispersed; the psychiatric hospital was outside the borough and the community psychiatric nurses and doctors were separately housed.

With the development of community mental health teams, community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) are more likely to meet people with bulimia, most of whom are women.

Psychiatrists rarely visited younger patients at home unless a compulsory admission appeared necessary, but community psychiatric nurses were in close touch, often through their administration of regular depot injections.

Community Psychiatric Nurse, Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust.