Mental health nurses are registered nurses who hold a recognised specialist qualification in mental health.
Mental health nurses are highly specialised in their practice. They work alongside people with lived experience of mental illness and their carers, provide help, and support recovery.
Mental health nurses use psycho-therapeutic and ethical decision-making processes, as well as interpersonal interventions to care for and help consumers and their families recover.
Their strengths include an exceptional ability to communicate with empathy, warmth and compassion. They occupy wide ranging roles and fulfil responsibilities using an ethical decision making process.
They assess, coordinate, manage, treat, support, inform, teach and lead. They are, in essence, everywhere.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people wll never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people wll never forget how you made them feel.
Mental Health Pathways in Practice (MHPiP) is a stimulating program that harnesses the power of on-the-job learning in collaboration. All nurses working in mental health can easily stay up to date with information, enhance their working relationships with colleagues, and strengthen their mental health literacy and confidence.
For additional information contact Principal Advisor, Mental Health, Beaver Hudson or call the Nursing and Midwifery Office on telephone (02) 9391 9528.
