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Psychological support for a community paediatric nursing team

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gill Salmon  and
Anne Marie Connor
Gill Salmon*
Affiliation:
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Park Hospital for Children, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LQ
Anne Marie Connor
Affiliation:
Community Paediatric Nursing Team, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Mandeville Road, Aylesbury, Bucks HP21 SAL
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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We describe how a support group was set up and run over a ten-month period for members of a community paediatric nursing team. The views of the trainee who facilitated the group and of the nurse manager are offered.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , June 1997 , pp. 350 - 352
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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