Psych nursing and primary care

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Hi. Anyone work on an inpatient psych unit that utilizes primary nursing? If so how does the unit function?

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

I'm unsure what you mean by primary nursing...please help unconfuse the always-confused-me!

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Primary care as in each nurse does their own meds and keeps their own patients. We are moving from having a med nurse to doing primary care and I was wondering if there was a model that somebody could share. Team meetings might be tricky. Just wondering if anyone is doing that on their psych unit.

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Specializes in Leadership, Psych, HomeCare, Amb. Care.

We did that years ago at another hospital. Each pt had a primary &. Secondary RN.

That nurse would be responsible for the care plan, evaluating medication response, coordinating with SW & MD.

Worked pretty well, but requires more staff IIRC.

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I kind of wish our facility would do that. I feel like you are able to get to know your patient's better if you are passing their meds as well.

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