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$93.1m for mental health nurses in Qld
A $93.1 million Queensland Government investment will fund 53 specialist mental health nurses in emergency departments, with recruitment already underway…
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Mental health nurses call for greater Medicare access
Mental health nurses are calling on the government to use their expertise to drive a targeted response towards rising rates…
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Call to give mental health nurses bigger role in dealing with mental health crisis
The Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) has urged the Federal Government to consider greater access to MBS items…
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Mental health system under strain and facing a nurse shortage
The mental health system is failing to provide treatment to the people who most need it. That was the opinion…
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New nurse on the beat: the nurses swapping wards for police stations
Paula’s regular shift is 2pm to 10pm, she tells me. It’s only ten past and today a police officer has…
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New mental health post for nurses at police stations in NSW
Mental health nurses will now be based at a number of police stations across NSW as part of the Government’s…
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Mental health nurse jobs hindered by violence, aggression, stress
Mental health nurses (MHNs) make up the largest group of mental health workers in the country, but by 2030 there…
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A unique headspace
'What’s special about mental health nursing?’ This question launched a three-year study into the nature, scope and consequences of nurses’…
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Push to save young lives
A landmark report on youth suicide in the Northern Territory calls for better training of nurses in indigenous and mental…
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Prisons guilty of lack of mental illness support: study
Health professionals looking after prisoners with a mental illness lack the required skills, knowledge and resources, new research has found.…
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