AIM
To show that an Advanced Nurse Practitioner Candidate could effectively examine, assess, diagnose, treat, prescribe and make referrals for service users referred to the local mental health services.
The Decider Skills was one of the available interventions.
CONCLUSION
"Provision of Psychosocial Assessment by ANPC, CBT and Decider Skills provided by MHN to SU/P within both secondary and primary care are useful and effective. Both the quantitative and qualitative data that was analysed for those SU/P that engaged and completed CBT and Decider Skills indicated a high level of SU/P satisfaction and improved functioning in all CORE – OM measures."