Practice nurse involvement in giving depot neuroleptic injections: Development of a patient assessment and monitoring checklist

Primary Care Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 149-154

  Kendrick, Tony ^a,b   Millar, Elaine ^a   Burns, Tom ^a   Ross, Fiona ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nursing; Primary care; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NURSE TRAINING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0031733997     PISSN: 13552570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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