[Role of the mental health nurse in the general hospital].

The mental health nurse in the general hospital practices general and psychiatric nursing, as well as liaison and consultation nursing, and contributes: 1) to the promotion of the quality of the psychosocial care of the general patient for his better therapy and rehabilitation, 2) to the holistic nursing care of the psychiatric patient hospitalized for somatic diseases, 3) to the treatment of the psychological problems of the nursing personnel and the patients visitors, and 4) to the sensitization and education of nurses in themes of mental health and mental illness.