CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Provisional Program  - Subject to Change           

Members Forum - to be advised

 

IMPORTANT:  Please note there are limited spaces available for each session. The College have taken all possible steps to ensure maximum number of delegates per session, however it will be on a first in basis.  Some sessions may be full, in which case you will be able to choose from  four alternatives.

 

Please note:  Welcome Cocktail Drinks on Monday 6th October Grand Waldorf 5 - 1800 - 2000

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Tuesday 7th October 2008

0800

 

0900

Registration - Grand Waldorf 7 Lobby

 

Opening Ceremony - Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

0945

Keynote 1 Richard McLean - Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

1030

Morning Tea

 

1100

Inpatient nursing culture

Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

Caring for women

Grand Waldorf 1

Leadership

Grand Waldorf 2

Undergraduate nursing

Grand Waldorf 3

Intervention

Grand Waldorf 4

Session Chair:

Elimear Muir-Cochrane

Session Chair:

Pat Bradley

Session Chair:

Penny Herbert

Session Chair:

Debra Nizette

Session Chair:

Sandra Hoot

1.0

The Relationship is Central

 

Christine Palmer

2.0

‘KYA’ WEAVE – Introducing women sensitive practice

 

Kay

McCauley- Elsom

3.0

Leadership through Reflective Practice

 

Sallyanne Miller

4.0

A Portrait Of An Abstract Landscape: A Student Nurse's Reflection Of A Fast Track Mental Health Course

 

Lorna Jain

5.0

Consumer Outcomes Resulting From Participation In A Healthy Lifestyle Program Addressing The Effects Of Medication-Related Weight Gain And Mental Illness 

Rose Waterhouse

1.1

Therapeutic Friendliness and the Development of Therapeutic Leverage by Mental Health Nurses

 

Andrew Gardner

2.1
The National Register of Antipsychotic Medication in Pregnancy (NRAMP)
 

Heather Gilbert

3.1

Developing the next generation of mental health leaders:  the art of mentoring

Andrea McCloughlen

4.1

Evaluation Of An Innovative Workshop For Nursing Students On Person Centered Care In Mental Health

 

Elizabeth Martin

5.1

Interdisciplinary: An Art And Science

 

Elma (Elizabeth Margaretha) Fourie

1.2

Interpersonal Aspects Of Patient Satisfaction And The Culture Of Mental Health Nursing Practice

  

Belinda Mackie

2.2
Psychosis, Pregnancy and Motherhood: A case study of ten women

Kay McCauley-Elsom

3.2

Empowering the Shift Leader

 

Linda Howie and  Kirstie O'Carroll

  

 

4.2

Taking the Lead: Introducing the Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing to Undergraduate Student Nurses

  

Margaret Hughes

 

5.2

Obscuring the landscape: hidden nature of child sex abuse

 

 

Tony Warne and

Sue Mc Andrew

1.3

Patients; Nursing Staff and Patients Relatives Perceptions of Ward Atmosphere in four Jordanian Psychiatric Hospitals

 

Ahmad Al-Sagarat

2.3

About Helen - Psychosis and pregnancy ( A case study)

Heather Gilbert

3.3

Bringing it all together:  the link between transformational leadership, emotional intelligence and clinical education

 

Derith Harris and Shane Price

 

 

4.3

Music Therapy In Acute Psychiatric Facilities: An Undergraduate’s Perspective

 

 

Tamsyn Opie

5.3

The BETTER Model: A Guide To Assist Mental Health Nurses In Discussing Sexuality With Consumers

  

Chris Quinn and Graeme Browne

1300

Lunch and Richard McLean Book Launch Launch - 'Strange Currencies of Ego and Soul:  The visual language of Richard McLean - Exhibitoin area opposite booth 19

 

1400

Indigenous community

Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

Working with adolescents

Grand Waldorf 1

Exploring schizophrenia

Grand Waldorf 2

Art and therapy

Grand Waldorf 3

Physical health and intervention

Grand Waldorf 4

Session Chair:

Don Gorman

Session Chair:

Jem Masters

Session Chair:

Pat Barkway

Session Chair:

Val Goodwin

Session Chair:

Stephen Elsom

1.4

"I'm the health professional, I know what's wrong, and how to fix you,' That's not what the stats say.

 

Dee Hellsten

2.4
Speak for yourself" Stories From Adolescent Mental Health Media Groups

 

Bronwyn Tarrant
 

3.4

Do the concept of resilience and the experience of schizophrenia go together

 

Sue Liersch

4.4

Beautiful Minds, Creative Hands. An Annual Mental Health Week Art Exhibition

 

Annette Woodhouse

5.4

Normalising ECT as a treatment option for patients' and their family.

 

Danielle Barnes

1.5
Challenges In Mental Health Literacy Within Top End Remote Indigenous Communities
 
Deb Spurgeon and Lorin James

 

2.5

Pushing The Boundaries: Relationships With Adolescents

 

Julia McLean

3.5

Being Resilient As Described By People Who Experience Mental Illness

 

Karen-Leigh Edward

4.5

'Thriving not just Surviving’

 

Sharon Sherwood and Carolyn Noel

 

5.5

Promoting the physical health of psychiatric patients

 

Dianne Wynaden

1.6

"You can't take the person out of the communication process"

 

 Martin Musco and Deb Spurgeon

 

2.6

At the end of my string: the experience of parents caring for a young person with emergent psychosis

 

Rhonda Wilson

 3.6

A Review Of Jung’s Psychology Of Schizophrenia And Its Relevance In Contemporary Psychiatric Nursing Practice

 

Alan Moore

 4.6

Insects in the Web of Life”

 

Carolyn Noel

5.6

Improving Care: Managing Physiological Pain in an Inpatient Mental Health Unit

 

Karen Gullick

1530

Afternoon Tea & Poster Presentations

 

1600

Extended mental health nursing roles

Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

Technology and teaching

Grand Waldorf 1

Borderline Personality Disorder

Grand Waldorf 2

Seclusion

Grand Waldorf 3

Sharing the art

Grand Waldorf 4

Session Chair:

Trish Martin

Session Chair:

Pat Barkway

Session Chair:

Gregory Clark

Session Chair:

Greg Neilson

Session Chair:

Sandra Hoot

1.7

Teaching Granny to Suck Eggs: Education and Skills Training for Authorised Mental Health Practitioners in Western Australia

 

Tim Rolfe

2.7

Can a computer replace a Mental Health Lecturer?

 

Jem Masters

3.7

To admit or not to admit that is the question Can acute inpatient admissions be a therapeutic part of the overall treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder?

 

Deborah Dick

4.7

From Seclusion To Inclusion

 

Sharon Olsson

5.7

The Art and Science of Clinical Supervision

 

Lisa Lynch, Kerrie Hancox, Brenda Happell

1.8

Duly Authorised Officer’s practices under mental health law in New Zealand: Are nurses meeting the requirements of the law?

 

Brian McKenna

2.8

The Art of Mental Health Nursing in the Primary Care Setting

Christine Palmer and Maree Robertson

3.8

Seeking safety amid judgment and labelling: A consumer perspective

 

Jenny Tohotoa

4.8

Re-evaluating the design of seclusion rooms for psychiatric intensive care units.

 

Katrina Anthoney

5.8

Natural Born Mental Health Nurses - A Multimedia Representation of Peer Group Clinical Supervision in Action

 

Bernie Stefan-Rasmus

1830 - 1840

Buses depart hotel at 1840 sharp to the MCG - This service is only available to those who have booked with the conference secretariat  on the website at least 4 days prior to the conference)

1900 -1930

 

2000 - Midnight

Welcome Drinks at the MCG (Percy Beans Bar) (Enter thru Gate 2 at MCG)

 

Eli Lilly Partnership and Wellbeing Gala Awards Dinner at Private Members Dining Room MCG 

Dress Code:  After 5 - "Dress to Impress"

 

 

 

Wednesday 8th October 2008               

 

0900

Reducing seclusion

Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

Extending practice

Grand Waldorf 1

Practice development

Grand Waldorf 2

Strategies for depression

Grand Waldorf 3

Inpatient mental health nursing

Grand Waldorf 4

Session Chair:

Fiona Whitecross

Session Chair:

John Carmody

Session Chair:

Debra Nizette

Session Chair:

Andrea McLaughlin

Session Chair:

Trish Martin

 6.0

Changing the way we care: Reducing Seclusion in the Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Setting

 

Fiona Reed

7.0

Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program – Enhancing Mental Health Services.

 

Bill Kuluris

8.0

Managing Mental Health Units whilst changing practice and context.

 

Frances Pagdin

9.0

The Role of Primary Care Practice Nurses in The Delivery Of Depression Treatment To Enhance Clinical Outcome. An Audit of Training Outcomes, Clinical Effect and Satisfaction

 

David Ekers

10.0

What defines the therapeutic relationship of Nurses working in the Mental Health settings? Does the uniform play a part in this relationship?

 

Danielle Barnes and Pauline Nathan

6.1

Reducing Seclusion In Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Settings: A Need For Strong Leadership

 

Cadeyrn Gaskin

7.1

Getting The MHNIP Off The Ground For A GP Network

 

Wendy Hall

8.1

Practice Development and Creative Mental Health Nursing

 

Maria Fitzgerald

9.1

Behavioural Treatments of Depression: Do they Work And Can Mental Health Nurses Deliver Them Effectively

 

David Ekers

10.1

Protected Engagement Time the Art of Therapeutic Interaction

 

Fiona Lamont and Prof Jane Stein-Parbury

6.2

Sensory (chill out) room trial: A culture change

 

Graeme Browne, Sue Wentworth, Sarah Cook and Andrea Browne

7.2

Psychiatry and the Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program

 

RANZCP

8.2

Mental Health First Aid Training For Advisory And Extension Agents Working With Farmers

 

Don Gorman

 

9.2

Seeking And Maintaining Employment For People With Depression And Other Mental Illnesses

 

Ian Munro and Karen-leigh Edwards

10.2

Findings from travels under a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship to investigate less restrictive practices in acute mental health care

 

Sue Liersch

1030

Morning Tea

10.45 Elsevier Book launch for 'Psychopharmacology for the Health Professional'   Kim Usher, Kim Foster and Shane Bullock

1115

 

 

Keynote 2 Brenda Happell

"Shaping a vision for mental health nursing: appreciating the science, advancing the art and navigating the politics"

Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

 

DHS Victoria Paper of the Day announcement - Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

1200

Inpatient nursing

Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

Research

Grand Waldorf 1

Psychiatric emergency care centres

Grand Waldorf 2

Remote area practice

Grand Waldorf 3

Standards of practice

Grand Waldorf 4

Session Chair:

Christine Palmer

Session Chair:

Don Gorman (2)

Session Chair:

Rosemary Charleston

Session Chair:

Val Goodwin (4)

Session Chair:

Kay McCauley-Elsom

6.3

Despite Issues Such As Aggression, Increasing Patient Acuity, Staff And Bed Shortages Why Do Nurses Keep Returning To The Mental Health Arena?

 

Tamara Kos

7.3

Evidence Based Practice in Mental Health Nursing – Art or Science?

 

Jacklin Fisher

8.3

Accessing a technology focused environment reduces mental health stigma.

 

Paul Rungen

9.3

Improving consumer outcomes through the incorporation of family sensitive practice in a rural mental health service

 

Jennifer Watterson and Justine Anderson

10.3

Raising Our Standard: The review and renewal of the 'Standards of Practice for Mental Health Nurses' for the 21st century

 

Catherine Hangan and Christine Neville

6.4

Morale on acute inpatient psychiatric wards in England: the reality is much better than the rhetoric

 

Len Bowers

7.4

A Bricolage Quilt: Squaring the art and science of mental health nursing research

 

Tony Warne and

Sue Mc Andrew

8.4

Decisions, decisions: A PECC or a POD?

 

Michael Blair, Anthony Sweeney and Kim Foster

9.4

Building Community Across Geographic Boundaries: New Brushstrokes On A Broad Canvas

 

Elizabeth Martin,  Denise McGarry and Andrew Cashin

10.4

An evaluation of the impact of the Chief Nursing Officer's Review of Mental Health Nursing – preliminary findings of a national review of Higher Education Institutions and Mental Health Trusts in England.

 

John Baker

1300

Lunch and  Wiley-Blackwell Clinical Supervision for Nurses book launch. Meet the authors. Exhibition area

1400

Mental health nursing and older people

Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

Community mental health

Grand Waldorf 1

Service Issues

Grand Waldorf 2

Mental health nursing on-line

Grand Waldorf 3

Being with

Grand Waldorf 4

Session Chair:

Bryan McMinn

Session Chair:

Janette Curtis

Session Chair:

Michael Blair

Session Chair:

Pat Barkway

Session Chair:

Kim Foster

6.5

Mental status assessment:: The current focus of this vital sign in nursing curricula

 

Dianne Wynaden

 

7.5

Mental health crises at home: service user perspectives on what helps and what hinders when they receive home based treatment as an alternative to admission to an acute inpatient unit

 

Stephen Niemiec

8.5

Benchmarking mental health services: Harnessing information for quality improvement.

 

Tim Coombs

9.5

Use Of Collaborative Web-Based Technology In Mental Health – Wiki Use In Practice

 

Rick Bastida

10.5

To be seen and heard: Creating Space for the Experiences of Mental Health Nurses to be Heard

 

Gylo Hercelinskyj

6.6

The Resettlement Experience Of Elderly Immigrants Of Indian Origin Living In Western Australia. What Psychological Distress Do They Experience?

 

Pauline Nathan

7.6

Re-establishing Social Connectedness In A Community Mental Health Setting

 

Carole Harrison

8.6

Smoke-free Workplace Policy: Reconciling Obedience to Authority, Consumer Rights and Excellence in Evidence-Based Nursing Leadership

 

Patrizia Fiorillo

9.6

Online Learning in Mental Health Emergency Care

 

Danny Hills

10.6

 Mood Is To Day As Affect Is To Season: A Photojournal

 

David Miu

 

 

6.7

Mental Health Nursing Care for Older People in Developing Countries

 

Christine Neville

7.7

Drowning In Paper? The Documentary Practices Of Community Mental Health Nurses In The Age of Information Technology

 

Maureen Deacon

8.7

The Art And Science Of Creating Therapeutic Environments: Mental Health Buildings Of The 21st Century.

 

Kath Schelling and David McLeod

9.7

One in - all in: Promoting safer medication administration through on-line competency assessment for all nurses.

 

Greg Miller

10.7

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Nurse: The Making of Mental Health Nurses

 

Greg Clark

1530

Afternoon Tea & Poster Presentations

1600

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1700

Outcome measures

Grand Waldorf 5 & 6

Pharmacology

Grand Waldorf 1

Therapeutic optimism

Grand Waldorf 2

Concerning suicide

Grand Waldorf 3

Consumers and carers

Grand Waldorf 4

Session Chair:

Dianne Wynaden

Session Chair:

Gregory Clark

Session Chair:

Andrew Cashin

Session Chair:

Brian McKenna

Session Chair:

Bridget Hamilton

6.8

Technology and routine outcome measurement, the opportunity to support decision-making and care planning.

 

Tim Coombs

7.8

Enhancing the use of PRN psychotropic medications in acute mental health wards.

 

John Baker

8.8

Mental Health Nurses’ Therapeutic Optimism: A Tale of Two Conferences

 

Stephen Elsom

9.8

Developing Suicide Prevention Expertise With Aboriginal Communities

 

Don Gorman