Twelve
district nurses are central to psychiatric family care. They
each look after the best interest of approximately 40 patients.
They act as contacts, confidents and advocates for patient and
family. They monitor the interaction between the patient and
the foster family. The district nurses regularly pop in on the
family to ensure that everything is going smoothly and to deliver
the prescribed medication. In case of problems they mediate,
report on the patient’s behaviour or intervene if necessary.
In difficult times there is daily contact. Somebody is stand-by
round the clock.
