Mental health nursing

​​​​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

Hear from someone working in mental health nursing