Promoting Mental Health Nursing Research
The purpose of the Research Committee of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses is to promote research as a contribution to the strategic development and application of mental health nursing knowledge to benefit consumers and the broader community.
Objectives
* Ensure that College-sponsored research is culturally safe
* Promote research that is clinically relevant
* Encourage research that draws on collaborations with other disciplines and consumers
* Sponsor ethically sound and methodologically robust research activity, through the award of grants
* Assist mental health nurses to develop research literacy
* Influence mental health research agendas
* Advise the acmhn Council on contemporary research-related issues
* Lobby national, state and territory organisations to support mental health nursing research
* Disseminate College-sponsored research findings to members
* Provide forums for sharing information on research
* Encourage Branches to foster a research culture
Research Committee Chair:
Louise O'Brien
Professor in Nursing, Charles Sturt University
Research Interests:
- Mental Health and Mental Illness
- Impact of Trauma on mental health across the lifespan
- Mental Health Nursing
- Psychotherapeutic aspects of mental health nursing care
- Organisation of Nursing Practice
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Research Committee Members:
Yun-Hee Jeon
Associate Professor, University of Sydney
Research interests:
- Dementia care
- Workforce issues
- Clinical leadership
- Primary Health Care
- Chronic and complex care
- Aged care
- Dementia outcome measures
- Respite care
- Family caregiving
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Dianne Wynaden
Professor (Mental Health), Curtin University of Technology
Research interests:
- Mental health
- Ethics
- Leadership
- Qualitative research
- Chronic illness
- Health services research
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Christine Neville
Associate Professor, University of Queensland
Research interests:
- Mental Health
- Aged Care
- Psychogeriatrics
- Dementia (Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms and Pain Management)
- Respite Care
- Tertiary Education for Nurses
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Stephen James Elsom
Associate Professor, University of Melbourne
Research Interests:
- Expanded and advanced practice in mental health nursing
- Medication safety
- Therapeutic optimism
- Community mental health
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Catherine Hungerford
Senior Lecturer in Nursing, University of Canberra
Research Interests:
- Recovery principles and models of care
- Clinical Supervision
- Leadership
- Acute mental health
- Rural mental health
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Rhonda Wilson
Lecturer, Mental Health Nursing, University of New England
Research interests:
- Emergent mental health problems of young rural people
- Mental health helping capital in rural communities
- Simulation and virtual learning environments in preregistration mental health nursing education
- Drug and alcohol
- Early psychosis
- Mental health care in southern African
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Kim Foster
Associate Professor, University of Sydney
Research Interests:
- Issues and needs of children, young people and families living with mental illness
- Family/carers health and experiences
- Family/carers and health professional relationships
- Emotional intelligence and emotional labour in health care
- Individual and family resilience
- Co-morbidity of physical health and mental health
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Terence McCann
Professor of Nursing Research, Victoria University
Research Interests:
- The promotion of wellbeing in chronic mental illness
- Medication taking in severe mental illness
- Family interventions in mental illness
- Nurse prescribing
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Rachel Rossiter
Senior Lecturer & Convenor Post-Graduate Mental Health Nursing programs,
School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Newcastle
Research Interests:
- Practice development (nurse practitioner roles)
- Supporting the implementation of evidence-based therapeutic interventions
- Challenging therapeutic pessimism
- Mindfulness used as an adjunct to Western based therapeutic interventions
- Impact on clinician well-being of interventions designed to support mental health clinicians
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Teresa Stone
Undergraduate Program Coordinator, University of Newcastle
Research interests:
- Swearing
- Verbal aggression
- Nurse education
- Clinical supervision
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