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D J Withersty

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1980

Psychiatry as an internal medicine subspecialty: an educational model.

Psychiatry has been integrated into the Department of Internal Medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine as a means of ameliorating the educational and patient care deficiencies engendered by the traditional mind-body dichotomy in medical education. A major project derived from this merger of clinical and teaching activities has been the transformation of the university hospital psychiatric ward in to the Conjoint Medicine Service. This service, to which patients with a variety of emotional and medical problems are admitted, is staffed by medical house officers and a general internist in a close collaborative relationship with the Department of Psychiatry. The nursing care is oriented toward patient education, exemplified by group sessions. House staff and students are trained to recognize and evaluate the underlying emotional and interrelational factors which affect each patient's health status and prognosis as a routine part of a comprehensive medical work-up. Student and patient acceptance of this integrated approach has been enthusiastic.

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PubMed1980

Evaluating a conjoint psychiatric-medical inpatient unit--a one year follow-up study of depressed patients.

In an effort to evaluate a new Conjoint Psychiatric-Medical Unit, depressed patients treated on the service are compared with depressed patients treated on the same unit when it was a psychiatric service. Recidivism, return to responsibilities, and patient satisfaction are the parameters that are compared, and no significant differences are noted. These findings would suggest that the new Inpatient Service appears to be an effective treatment modality for depressed patients.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Teaching interpersonal management for effective professional nursing practice.

The treatment environment is an important component of patient care. In order to provide more effective patient care one would want to be able to manipulate the environment, particularly the emotional environment. This is difficult to do and even more difficult to teach. The authors describe a teaching module in a baccalaureate program in nursing in which didactic sessions and behavioral rehearsal analysis techniques are combined. The goal is to teach interpersonal manipulation for more effective management of professional nursing practice. The results have been promising.

Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate↗
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The first five years: a review of the collaboration between DHHR and the WVU School of Medicine.

In 1992, the West Virginia Dept. of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and the West Virginia University School of Medicine, Dept. of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry (BM & P), entered into a collaborative effort to provide treatment for patients at the state-operated psychiatric hospital in Weston, W.Va. Within five years, patients were moved into a new, modern facility renamed the William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital, which is JCAHO approved and Medicare certified; the clinical and nursing staff has increased by 38%; and students from a variety of disciplines rotate through for training. In addition, 70% of all patients admitted are discharged within 20 days or less.

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