ACMHN's 39th International Mental Health Nursing Conference
Collaboration and Partnerships
22-24 October 2013, Pan Pacific Hotel, Perth
“Collaboration and Partnerships in Mental Health Nursing” reflects the changing practice domain and the importance of partnerships to the profession. As mental health nurses we collaborate and work in partnership with consumers and carers, with national and international partners, inter-professionally to foster improvements in mental health care, to bridge the theory practice gap between universities and the clinical areas. We also work collaboratively across an increasing spectrum of clinical areas with government and non-government organisations.
Collaboration and partnerships has also assisted us to work outside of the health silo to strive to improve the quality of life for consumers and carers living in the community.
Speakers and delegates were invited to consider the significance of collaboration and partnerships to their professional lives and in the positioning of the profession into the future. The host committee believe that the theme will provide opportunity for speakers to address a wide range of mental health issues, and give a wide range for sub-themes, which may include Changing practice domains for the profession; Partnerships to recovery; Fostering national/international collaborations; Enhancing the profession through collaboration and partnerships; Working with partners from government and non-government organisations; Working with Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse communities; The development of evidence based practice.
Keynote speakers
Professor Pat Dudgeon – Mental Health Commissioner
Pastor Keith Carmody – WA Police Chaplain
Lt Col Cate McGregor – Author, journalist, thinker and political strategist
Professor Dawn Freshwater – Professor of Mental Health & Pro-Vice Chancellor University of Leeds
Professor Eimear Muir-Cochrane – Chair of Nursing (Mental Health) Flinders University
Dr Frances Hughes – Chief Nursing & Midwifery Officer QHealth
Program
Click here to download a copy of the program from the 2013 Conference.
Abstracts
Click here to view the abstracts in the IJMHN Special Issue: ACHMN's 39th International Mental Health Nursing Conference Collaboration and Partnership in Mental Health Nursing, 22-24 October 2013, Pan Pacific Hotel, Perth, Western Australia. Guest Editor: Peta Marks
Highlights
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Research Award winners
Ian Munro and Sini Jacob
Don’t go ahead or behind, walk alongside to understand the real meaning of recovery
Research Award runners-up
Andrew Watkins
Nurse-obtained metabolic monitoring within a psychiatric hospital
Terrance McCann
Bibliotherapy
Stan Alchin Award winner
Vincent Drinkwater
Collaborative Approach to the Management of Acute Behavioural Disturbance
Stan Alchin Award runners-up
Karen Collidge and Joanne Webb
Expanding the clinical practice domains and developing collaborative models of care – The Mental Health Nurse and Family Based Treatment (FBT) for young people and their families who are experiencing anorexia or bulimia nervosa
Janice Jankovic
Talking the same language
General Award Winner
Margaret McAllister
Resilience in mental health nursing
General Award runners-up
Rhonda Brown and Ruth McNair
The relationship between alcohol and mental health among lesbian and bisexual women
Tim Rolfe and Creswell Surrao
Making some tough choices – the AMHP role in WA
Poster award winner
Nicole Goulter, Glenn Gardner and David Kavengh
Patterns of care
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