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Review of twenty-four-hour nursed care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rob Macpherson  and
Bill Jerrom
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Twenty-four-hour nursed care refers to a model of psychiatric care which in fact varies quite significantly from unit to another. This sort of residential care unit has also been called the “hospital hostel” (Goldberg et al, 1985), “ward in a house” (Wykes & Wing, 1982), “psychiatric nursing home” and in some cases “staffed group home”. Although the unit size, staffing structures and ratios, and the degree of direct management within the National Health Service (NHS) vary, this model of care has some quite specific characteristics, which have been summarised by Shepherd et al (1994) as follows:

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , March 1999 , pp. 146 - 153
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1999 

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