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PSYCHIATRISTS’ ROLES AND STAFF STRESSES IN A RENAL HOMOTRANSPLANTATION UNIT
Author(s) -
Fielding John M.,
Grounds A. David,
Mellsop Graham
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1974.tb50758.x
Subject(s) - unit (ring theory) , medicine , intensive care medicine , psychology , mathematics education
In assessing patients and in discussions with the staff the psychiatrists aimed to work with the Renal Homotransplantation Unit in treating the whole person. Application of psychiatric concepts, clarification of problems about patients and consideration of management philosophies were dealt with. Some special stresses on the Renal Unit staff include limited opportunities for the disposal of difficult patients, management of children in an adult hospital, physical overcrowding, patients “giving up”, problems of being a special unit and conflicts precipitated by patients wishing to withdraw from the programme and die.