Evidence
"psychiatric nurses"
Nurses and assertive community treatment teams: A critical combination.
This commentary discusses the critical role that nurses play on ACT teams and ACT as a platform to integrate physical and mental health. It also reviews issues that may affect nursing shortages on ACT teams.
Cuddeback, G., & Shatell, M. (2010). Nurses and assertive community treatment teams: A critical combination. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 31, 751-752. doi: 10.3109/01612840.2010.518338
Assertive community treatment: Evidence based hope for the seriously mentally ill.
This editorial summarizes the overall evidence of ACT, including a paragraph about primary care (i.e., access to primary care and early evidence-based studies that describe the scope of the problem) . The overall conclusion of the editorial is that there is hope for those suffering from serious mental illness with ACT.
Keywords:
primary care
community treatment
evidence based practice
mentally illness
health care services
psychiatric nurses
module 1
Rice, M.J. (2011). Assertive community treatment: Evidence based hope for the seriously mentally ill. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 17(1), 13-15. doi: 10.1177/1078390310396708