About Fellowship
Fellowship is an award bestowed on members who have made a significant contribution to the College and to the profession through the pursuit of excellence in mental health nursing.
Members who are eligible to apply for Fellowship have a demonstrated commitment to the ACMHN and to mental health nursing, are Credentialed Mental Health Nurses and have been a financial member of the College for a minimum of 5 years (continuous).
Fellows are presented to the Board, and the membership at the annual Oration and Investiture - the most important College event of the year and a highlight of the annual conference.
Applying for Fellowship
Fellowship applications are now accepted for an investiture at the Annual Conference to be held in Sydney on 8-10 October 2019. Applications must be received by the College no later than 31 August 2019.
Please ensure that you read the criteria for application carefully and include all supporting documentation required.
Applications for 2019 are now open
2015 Fellows
Catherine Hangan Susan Kidd
2014 Fellows
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Francis Acquah
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Anne Hamilton
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Ellen Cross
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Fiona Whitecross
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Alan Moore
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Sue Liersch
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Matthew James |
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2013 Fellows
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Dianne Wynaden |
Raelene Costello |
2012 Fellows
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Breda Ryan |
Gareth Daniels |
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John Hurley |
Marty Musco |
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Peter Santangelo |
Terri Stone |
Catherine Hungerford was also invested as a Fellow in 2012. Congratulations to the Fellows invested at the 2012 Oration & Investiture ceremony held in Darwin.
2011 Fellows
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BAGNELL, Garry |
Congratulations to the Fellows invested at the 2011 Oration & Investiture held at the Gold Coast, pictured above with President Peter Santangelo |
2010 Fellows
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ASHBY, Rebekah |
Congratulations to the Fellows invested at the 2010 Oration & Investiture held in Hobart pictured above with President Peter Santangelo (Front left) |
2009 Fellows
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Denise McGarry 'What Fellowship means to me is a recognition of my contribution to our profession and a signal of my continuing responsibility to provide support to fellow mental health nurses.” |
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Pippa Blackley Fellowship for me is about knowing I “belong” to a group of other dedicated mental health nurses who feel as passionately as I do about the College and future of mental health nursing. Its also a recognition of the work I have put in over the past five years in the local Hunter sub-branch on the Executive and at the local conferences. Its always nice to be acknowledged! |
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Andrea McCloughen Being admitted as a Fellow to the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses during 2009 gave me a sense of great pride in being a mental health nurse and a member of the College. Fellowship meant that my service to the College, and more broadly to the mental health nursing profession, albeit modest, had been and would continue to be acknowledged by my peers. That acknowledgement was significant to me because it came from my contemporaries and the peak professional body representing mental health nurses in Australia. Being awarded Fellowship to the College demonstrates that being an active member of the mental health nursing profession and having commitment to continuous professional development for education and practice is indeed valued by other nurses. Although the benefit of fellowship may be viewed as primarily symbolic, in fact, it highlights to others an individual’s authentic commitment to the mental health nursing profession. Importantly, Fellowship also emphasises the College’s contribution to enhancing the ongoing position and character of mental health nursing in Australia, by officially recognising the positive contributions to nursing practice, research, leadership and scholarship made by its own members. |
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Terry Frogatt Fellowship of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses, I believe, is an acknowledgement by ones peers that an individual Mental Health Nurse has made a noteworthy contribution to the nursing profession. |
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Janine van Bruinessen What fellowship means to me... Proud recognition of the effort, dedication and commitment I have towards my chosen professional career as a mental health nurse . It was great to have this commitment acknowledged and supported by a group of my peers and the ACMHN as the peak professional body for mental health nurses nationally. |
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Jo Seymour (Right) "Fellowship to me is a sense of achievement, a self recognition that my passion and dedication to what I love has not gone unrecognised"
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Elaine Ford What fellowship means to me is having professional recognition for my commitment and passion for mental health nursing, respect for the expertise I offer mental health consumers, and feeling valued by my peers. |
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Anabel de la Riva |
Lee Collison |
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Christine Axten |
What fellowship means to me... I was asked to complete this sentence by the College and it got me thinking about where the idea of a Fellow came from. Wikipedia (always my first source of information) clarified it was an ancient English tradition – no surprises there – where Fellows (blokes) of high status were recognized for their achievements and got to hob nob and sit at a ‘high table’ in full academic regalia eating and drinking for free … Ah ha… now I understand the pomp and circumstance of the investiture ceremony; dress ups, free food, champagne, and a trumpet fanfare escorting us Fellows and Fellowesses in and out of the investiture hall. |
| For me becoming a fellow of the Australia College of Mental Health Nurses has been an important acknowledgement of the contribution I have made as a mental health nurse to the college. This was through my NSW branch work, participating in working parties for conferences and presenting and participating in conference activities. It has also meant the acknowledgement of the contribution I have made to mental health nursing in general through adding to the evidence base of mental health nursing, showing leadership and mentoring in Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health. |
Julie Ferguson |
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Maria Fitzgerald |
Teresa Kelly |
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Jacklin Fisher |
Regina McDonald |
Full list of ACMHN Fellows:
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ACQUAH Francis
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FORD Elaine
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MUIR-COCHRANE Eimear
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