Research Board
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The purpose of the Research Board 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
Chair Person
Professor Louise O'Brien
Email: research@acmhn.org