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Chapter 3 - Nursing in Consultation-Liaison Settings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2024

By
Kate Chartres  and
Sarah Eales
Edited by
Rachel Thomasson ,
Elspeth Guthrie  and
Allan House
Rachel Thomasson
Affiliation:
Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences
Elspeth Guthrie
Affiliation:
Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
Allan House
Affiliation:
Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
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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.

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mental-health liaison nursenursingpsychiatric liaison nurse
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Seminars in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry , pp. 32 - 47
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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