Developed for Australian nursing students
Contemporary Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing is a lived experience, contemporary, evidence-based, culturally competent, authoritative and comprehensive resource. It offers a fully integrated perspective which most importantly includes the voice of people with mental illness.
With a consumer voice was prominent in each chapter this text is designed to enhance students ability to become a therapeutic, nonjudgmental, competent and confident psychiatric/mental health nurse.
It is mapped to the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice.
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Professor Lorna Moxham started nursing in 1980 and is a 3-year specialist hospital-trained psychiatric nurse. Lorna is passionate about the nursing profession, particularly mental health nursing, and is actively contributing at regional, state, national and international levels.
Mike Hazelton is Professor of Mental Health Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is a former Head of Nursing and Midwifery at Newcastle, and also Curtin University and the University of Tasmania, and has been involved in nurse education generally and mental health nurse education specifically for over 30 years. Mike has published over 90 articles, abstracts, books and book chapters on mental health and mental health nursing, and has undertaken consultancies for various governments in Australia. Mike is a former editor of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, and a current member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. He has been awarded a number of awards for his research, and is a Life Member of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses, the highest honour awarded by that professional organisation.
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