Research Committee

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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