Abstract
M.Cur. (Psychiatric Nursing)
With modern psychiatric treatment, patients usually come into contact with
as many as six different team members. These team members have their
own particular treatment plans for patients. This has prompted the
question: "How do patients experience their treatment by the interprofessional
health team?"
The aims of this study are as follows:
• To explore psychiatric patients' experiences of their treatment by the
interprofessional health team in a particular private psychiatric clinic.
• To set basic guidelines which will promote the optimisation of treatment
of psychiatric patients by the interprofessional health team, in
order to prevent the aggravation of mental illness, emphasising the
contribution of the psychiatric nurse.