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ACMHN's 41st International Mental Health Nursing Conference

Shifting Culture, Leading Change

7 - 9 October 2015

Brisbane Convention Centre

The 41st International Mental Health Nursing Conference was held in Brisbane at the Brisbane Convention Centre, from the 7th – 9th October 2014, with a workshop and the Oration and Investiture on the 6th.

The conference challenged speakers and delegates to get involved in the future of the profession; to consider and discuss how the profession can be moved forward,; and how mental health nurses can move from the ‘bedside to the boardroom’.

Mental health nursing leadership is the key. Step up, this is the future of mental health nursing

Keynote Speakers

Fay Jackson

From compassion fatigue to the new paradigm

Fay is the Deputy Commissioner, Mental Health Commission of NSW, General Manager - Inclusion at RichmondPRA, and runs her own business Vision in Mind.

Dr Lesley van Schoubroeck

Opening Address

Queensland Mental Health Commissioner

Nicole Gibson

Mental health isn't a political issue

National Mental Health Commissioner and CEO, The Rogue and Rouge Foundation

Professor Julie Repper

Shifting culture, leading change

Programme Director - ImROC (Implementing Recovery for Organisational Change), University of Nottingham and Recovery Lead, Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust

Dr Gail Stuart

Mental Health Nurses: Changing the conversation can change the world

Dean and a tenured Distinguished University Professor in the College of Nursing and a Professor in the College of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Kim Ryan

Mental health nursing: it really is rocket science

CEO, The Australian College of Mental Health Nurses

Dr Peter Santangelo

Dare to be different! Dare to be special! Dare to lead!

Member, NSW Mental Health Tribunal and Independent Practitioner