Training for transformation: Reorientating primary health care nurses for the provision of mental health care in South Africa

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 907-915

  Petersen, Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Comprehensive care; Evaluation; Nursing reorientation programme; Primary mental health care; Programme research; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MODEL; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOUTH AFRICA;

CULTURE; EDUCATION, NURSING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, NURSING; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033209683     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1999.01166.x     Document Type: Article

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