Nurses' role up for review
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The UK Mental Health Act 1983, dealing with the compulsory treatment of people suffering from mental illness, is being reviewed. There is concern the nurse is often ignored in the process despite their major role in caring for the patient. The increasing work of community psychiatric nurses in dealing with the mentally ill in the community should lead them to take part in compulsory admission procedures. It has been suggested the nurses may be on the side of the doctors and therefore not impartial. Yet nurses are independent of the doctors and practitioners in their own right.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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Making a will
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In the United Kingdom, dying intestate, that is, without a will, can leave a spouse homeless because of the way the intestacy rules work. the importance of leaving a will and the way the intestacy rules work are discussed.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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