MENTAL HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES, THEIR IMPORTANCE IN FUTURE MENTAL HOSPITAL BETTERMENT

C. A. BONNERAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 105, Number 9

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.105.9.669

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1. Plans to improve mental hospitals should take into consideration the role played by ward personnel.

2. Candidates for positions should be carefully screened, trained, and supervised.

3. The lessons learned by industry can be adapted to our use with resulting improvement in efficiency.

4. The ward plan of care in the general hospital offers a clue to better care of mental patients by a proper division of labor.

5. Means of enlarging the field of choice for ward help is a serious problem in mental hospital betterment.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 105 • Number 9 • March 1949

Pages: 669 - 672

PubMed: 18111193

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Published in print: March 1949

Published online: 1 April 2006

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C. A. BONNER

Danvers State Hospital, Hathorne, Mass.

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MENTAL HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES, THEIR IMPORTANCE IN FUTURE MENTAL HOSPITAL BETTERMENT

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