Privileged to share a learning space with @drjohnabaker.bsky.social reflecting on the harm embedded in mental health nursing and how we can kinder and safer #ACMHN2035

Mental health nursing as a discipline is disappearing in Australia resulting in systemic harm to people with mental illness and people experiencing a mental health crisis. Dear colleagues in Canada and the UK please resist. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

💡In Denmark, we implement new restrictive practice in mental health care. 👇I have provided an overview for those with interest. 🙏Thanks to @drjohnabaker.bsky.social, @gildberg.bsky.social and others for help and support on the way.

Dr Tim Wand, mental health nurse practitioner offers a summary of the potential harm and questionable benefits of psychotropic drugs. This critical information needs to be shared with people in genuine collaboratve and person-centred mental health nursing care (Open Source). doi.org/10.1080/0161...

More deeply affirming, critically relevant and informed reflections by @bondc007.bsky.social @debrae.bsky.social and Kim Usher. Such inspirational mental health nursing leaders! (open source of course) doi.org/10.1111/inm....

In a sample of women presenting to EDs with issues of intimate partner violence and receiving a triage referral to mentlal health, 60% were brought by ambulance. 80% of these were coerced via public health legislation. This may pathologise trauma responses (Open Source) doi.org/10.1111/inm....

Compassion is the bedrock of effective mental health care, it is a core skill, its a gift that keeps giving, and its a powerful healing force for the people we work with and for mental heallth nurses. (Free access) doi.org/10.1111/inm....

“It felt like this invisible person was following me. It became really frightening and I got really unwell. I didn't feel safe... not knowing who was watching me or when” We spoke to BBC about why we are calling for an end to Oxevision, CCTV and other systems on wards www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Real disappointment to discover that bullying by 'health professionals' exists in academia as well as clinical settings. I have observed even senior and highly regarded nursing academics being bullied and harmed by academic leaders enabled and emboldened by HR departments. youtu.be/bmR9lTCuFyc?...

Important research seeking to understand the increased coercion in Qld mental health services. I am familiar with these themes from my own practice, and I believe they hold international relevance (Open Access) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Open source scoping review by Australian MHN heroes and leaders on ensuring undergraduate mental health nursing placements are successful. doi.org/10.1080/0161... Unfortunately, many Australian universities are now completely removing mental health nursing from the undergraduate curricula

Pre-election deal between Police Union and Liberal National Party Qld prior to 2012 election required Director Mental Health to lock all public MH units. Blanket policy was rescinded July 2024 but nurses finding it hard to adapt. Reflecting on this wise research might assist doi.org/10.1111/nup....

This is an important 'primer' on restrictive and coercive practices in #MentalHealthServices here in Queensland with very considered and comprehensive policy recommendations, produced by our peak body for people with #LivedExperience. mhlepq.org.au/wp-content/u...

"It is vital that psychiatrists and other mental health professionals find ways to boost accurate knowledge about mental illness without simultaneously inflating it" A rich, deeply thoughtful article from two of the best thinkers on this topic (Haslam & Tse) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39402888/

Mental health nurses along with other mental health professionals are still vulnerable to holding on to stigmatising beliefs and biases regarding mental illness. Open source research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #MentalHealthNursing #QualitativeResearch #GroundedTheory

Australian mental health nurses celebrating our discipline at #ACMHN2024 acmhn.org/Web/Web/Even...

Excited to be in Perth with 480 mental health nurses #ACMHN2024

Inspired by Kim Usher mental health nursing practitioner, researcher at the #ACMHN2024 conference