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Life membership is an honour bestowed on members who have made significant contributions to the College and the Profession during their career.
I commenced my psychiatric training in May 1959 at St Augustines Mental Hospital, Chartham, Kent, England. On going back to England last year this is now a housing estate. They even used all the large dormitories for units! When I did my training we had to do three examinations during the three years. The first two were practical work e.g. bed making, trays and trolleys. The final was two papers on the same day lasting two hours each. The final Oral Examination lasted an hour. On getting the results I became a Staff Nurse working in different wards was until being seconded to a The Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury, Kent, England to do my general training for eighteen months. I was a successful applicant after interview at the John Connolly Hospital, at Rednal Birmingham in 1966. I was one of the charge nurses on night duty. It was in 1972 when I emigrated to Australia. I had already applied for a position at the Canberra hospital in the Psychiatric ward. I worked there for just one year. In 1973 I applied and was successful in the position at Woden Valley Hospital. In 1975 I commenced work as an educator at Canberra Hospital working with the nurses that did there nurse training in a two year course. I had never done teaching before this so it was all very new to me. The first thing I had to do was put together a whole eight week programme of theory and practice. I taught until 1977 when I went back on the psychiatric wards unfortunately this only lasted a short while because they closed down the psychiatric ward. I then worked on the general wards until 1982. I applied for a position as a Social Health Visitor at Phillip Health Centre I was successful at my interview and I was in that position this was until I was appointed a Level 111 nurse. I moved to the Gold Coast in 1989 and was working at Miami Psychiatric Clinic. I worked in that clinic until the unit was split in two and half were then moved to “The Cottage” next to the Psychiatric Unit of the Gold Coast Hospital. We stayed there until we once again moved to “The High Street Complex” It was here I that finished full time employment 2000. I then worked for a further three years part time that was two days a week until 2003.I have had a lot of experience over the years training in a very large hospital and learned the basics needed for to be a Psychiatric Nurse. Experience gained at the Therapeutic Community from 1966 -1072:
On moving to Australia it was nursing in small units and skills I learned and updated on where from 1972 -1975:
Moving to Education and skills learned in 1975:
Community Nursing from 1982 -1989:
Other experience gained:
Professor Mike Hazelton, RN BA MA PhD FACMHN is Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Professor of Mental Health Nursing at the University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Health. He has worked in different parts of Australia, including Western Australia and Tasmania, and has had extensive experience developing and implementing nursing programs in countries such as Singapore and Malaysia. Mike has previously held the positions of Head of Nursing at the University of Tasmania, and Head of Nursing and Midwifery at Curtin University of Technology, in Western Australia. He was recently appointed Honorary Director of the Halla /Newcastle Centre for Problem Based Learning, Cheju Halla College, Republic of Korea and was Visiting Professor in the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds (United Kingdom) between May and September 2010. Mike’s clinical work as Professor of Mental Health Nursing has included provision of various psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions. For instance, he has participated in the delivery of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder, in the Centre for Psychotherapy (James Fletcher Hospital), Hunter New England Area Health Service since 2005 (except 2010 when on study leave). He was also involved in a program providing group-based cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for depression to clients referred by local general practitioners in the Newcastle/Hunter region in 2006-9, and as an accredited mental health first aid trainer has taught mental health first aid to students, university staff and community members since 2009. Many of Mike’s research publications and presentations reflect his ongoing commitment to clinical work. Mike has a research background in both qualitative and quantitative methods, has published widely on mental health and mental health nursing and has undertaken consultancies for various governments, both Commonwealth and State in Australia. He is a past Editor of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing and is currently a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Nursing and Health Sciences and Mental Health and Substance Use: Dual Diagnosis. He has supervised 10 PhD students to successful completion and been the recipient of a number of awards for mental health nursing research. Significant professional responsibilities
Selected publications (since 2000) Clinton, M. & Hazelton, M. (2000) ‘Scoping the Australian mental health nursing workforce’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing 9, 2, 56-64. Hazelton, M.J. & Clinton, M. (2001) Mental health consumers or citizens with mental health problems and disorders? In Henderson, S. and Petersen, A. Consuming health: The commodification of health care. Oxford: Routledge, 88-101. Habibis, D., Hazelton, M., Schneider, R., Bowling, A. & Davidson, J. (2002) ‘A comparison of patient clinical and social outcomes before and after the introduction of an extended hours community mental health team’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 36, 392-398. Morrall, P. & Hazelton, M. (Eds.) (2004) Mental health policy: Global policies and human rights. London: Whurr. Hazelton, M. (2005) ‘Mental health, citizenship and human rights in four countries’ Health Sociology Review 14, 230-241. Hazelton, M., Rossiter, R., Milner, J. (2006) ‘Managing the “unmanageable”: Training staff in the use of dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder’ Contemporary Nurse 21, 1, 120-130. Joyce T., Hazelton, M., McMillan, M. (2007) ‘Nurses with mental illness: Their workplace experiences’ International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 16, 6, 373-380. Hazelton, M & Morrall, P. (2009) Mental health, the law and human rights. In: P. Barker (Ed.), Psychiatric mental health nursing: The craft of caring (Second Edition), London: Hodder Arnold, pp. 597-606. Pich, J., Hazelton, M., Sundin, D., Kable, A. (2010) ‘Patient related violence against emergency department nurses: A review’ Nursing and Health Sciences 12, 268-274. Stone, T., McMillan, M., Hazelton, M. (2010) ‘Swearing: Its prevalence in health care settings and impact on nursing practice’ Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 17, 528-534. Hazelton, M., Rossiter, R., Sinclair, E. (2010). Lost in Translation – Bridging the Gap: Supporting Students New to Practice in A. Warne, S. McAndrew (eds.) Creative approaches to health and social care education Houndmills, Basingstroke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 213-229. Hazelton, M & Morrall, P. (2011) Nursing, information technology and the humanization of health care in A. Cashion., R Cook (eds.) Evidence-based practice in nursing informatics: Concepts and applications Hersey: Medical Information Science Reference, pp. 135-149.
In 2008 I retired after over 30 years working in mental health services, then last year I was honoured to be awarded life membership of the College. These were both significant events for me and I thought I would share with members some of the experiences I have had over of those thirty years. I first entered the world of mental health as a trainee nurse in 1977 at the then Rydalmere Hospital. I was 29 years old and a mother of 2 daughters, Samantha and Sonja who were 9 and 7 years old respectively. I joined the HREA union (the precursor to the HSU) in my first week at Rydalmere Hospital and became active in the Union at a branch level. I joined the College (then the Congress of Mental Health Nurses) in 1978. After completing my Psychiatric Nurse training in 1980, I commenced training in the newly created Mental Retardation nursing certificate, also at Rydalmere Hospital. I backpacked through Central and South America for 4 months in 1981/82 in the company of (college member) Bob Weaver and two other friends. I was appointed to a Charge Nurse position (NUM) at Rydalmere Hospital in 1982 and then in 1984, was awarded a Departmental scholarship to undertake my General Nurse training at the Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH), where I joined and became an active member of the RNSH branch of the NSWNA. Whilst at RNSH, I unsuccessfully contested a state union election (HREA), however, I was elected as a member of the NSW Nurses Registration Board and as Vice President of the NSW Branch of the College. Rydalmere Hospital was earmarked as the first hospital to be closed as a result of the Richmond Report into Psychiatric and Mental Retardation Services - the former psychiatric part of the hospital is now a campus of the University of Western Sydney. In 1988 I was elected as President and Councillor for the NSW Branch of the College. After completing my general nurse training I worked for a short period at Marsden Hospital (1986) as an Assistant Director of Nursing, before being offered a secondment to the NSW Department of Health to work with Dr Maurice Sainsbury processing recommendations of the recently constituted Mental Health Review Tribunal. I later worked in the Richmond Implementation Unit at the Department, during which time I completed my degree in Social Welfare at Charles Sturt University. After the Richmond Implementation Unit was disbanded, I became a Senior Policy Analyst in the Mental Health Branch of the Department. During this time I became the National Vice President of the College. Then, after 10 years in the Department, I resigned to become the Director of Mental Health at Bankstown Health Service. In 1990 Pierre Baume became President and I became the Vice President of the College. Over the next 10 years the College underwent a transformation from a Congress to a College, a process that began with the name change at the 1991 AGM. At the same meeting members voted to adopt a new Constitution, which limited the terms of Presidents and Councillors to encourage turnover within the College Executive. Fellowship was introduced in 1992 - the same year Michael Clinton took on the task of redeveloping the College journal from a low volume in-house publication to a fully refereed international journal. The College, in conjunction with Gary Rowley, the then Director of Nursing at the Rozelle Hospital, established the Stan Alchin Award for the best clinical paper delivered at the College annual conference - Dianne Russell was the first winner at the Ballart Conference in 1992. Bob Weaver became College treasurer and established a research fund based on a $25,000 grant from the NSW Health Department, this fund grew to $200,000 by the time Bob resigned as treasurer. The first Oration and Investiture occurred in Sydney in 1993 and at the AGM that year members voted to allow New Zealand to form a branch of the College, leading to a change of name to the Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses. I became College President at the AGM that year. In 1994 the first College monograph “Getting up to Speed with Evidence Based Practice” was written by Gerry Farrell of the University of Tasmania and a Research Summit, convened by the College and chaired by Michael Clinton, was held in Canberra. The revised College Standards of Practice was published in 1994 and in 1995, the first International Conference was convened, in Canberra, by Jon Chesterson. Georgina Skews on behalf of the College successfully secured funds from the NSW Department of Health to undertake the development of a set of Clinical Indicators for Mental Health Nursing, which the College then published. About this time I was seconded to Liverpool Fairfield Mental Health Services as an internal consultant to review services; I was later appointed as the Director of Mental Health there. By the time my term as College President ended in 1997 plans were underway to establish credentialing of nurses and accreditation of courses by the College and I took on the role of President of the Professional Association for Nurses in Developmental Disability Nursing (PANDDA) for several years. I was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2001. I retired from the position of Director of Operations, Area Mental Health Services in Sydney South West Area Health Service in 2008. I was appointed as Censor in Chief in 2006 ending in 2009, when I was awarded Life Membership. My philosophy has always been to get involved to improve and if necessary change things. I have been privileged to work with many wonderful people both within the services I have worked in and through my involvement with the College. To those nurses who supported and assisted me to bring about the changes I have been involved in, my heartfelt thanks. To my beautiful daughters Samantha and Sonja, I love you and thanks for putting up with an all too often absent Mum.
Fellow of ACMHN, RMDN, RGN, RPN, Dip NEd, GDip Health Admin.
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