program
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
9:40am
8:00am
Registration/sign-in
Concourse (Ground Floor)
8:40am
Welcome to Country & Smoking Ceremony
Perry Wandin, Wurundjeri Elder
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
9:15am
Opening Address
Minister Ingrid Stitt, Victorian Minister for Mental Health
Let's Reflect and Grow
Anna Love
KEYNOTE
Special Event: Nursing Students Unite
Market Place (Level 1)
9:35am
THERAPEUTIC – PARENT & INFANT
Time
Block
Major Sponsor Introduction: Centre MHN – Bridget Hamilton
Plenary Space
Celebrity Room
Break Out 1
Mounting Yard
Break Out 2
Valley View
B2
11:25am
Chill Out Space (Level 1)
K Godfrey
(Grampians)
NEW MoC DUAL DISABILITY
Unique Community-based Rehabilitation Service for Consumers with Dual Disability
V Millward (Monash Health)
WORKFORCE EN
How Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educators are Responding to the Needs of the Enrolled Nurse Workforce
E Murrell (CMHL)
B10
4:40pm
THERAPEUTIC – TIC
'Empathy and Empowerment': Trauma -Informed Care in Clinical Practice.
S Thapa (Northern Health)
day
one
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Clinical Supervision: Are We Talking About the Same Thing?
H Ryu (UoM)
NEW MoC CRISIS HUB
Better Together: A Lived Experience and Nurse Practitioner Led Mental Health and AOD Assertive Outreach
C Dunn
(PHCN VIC)
WORKFORCE EN
Enrolled Nursing, A Career to Nurture and Retain
C Allen
(Bendigo Health)
THERAPEUTIC CAMHS
School Refusal and Child Focused Parent Work
A Harris
(Alfred)
B1
10:55am
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Clinical Supervision for Mental Health Nurses
K Thwaites
(Safer Care Vic)
NEW MoC INPATIENT
Empowering MH Nurses and Fostering Community Support: McKellar Centre In-Patient Ward
F Marwei (Barwon)
PRACTICE EN
How Do We Teach Soft Skills? The Development and Implementation of a Targeted Training Workshop on Communication Techniques, Professional Boundaries and Self-care for Novice Mental Health Nurses
V Power (Eastern)
B3
11:50am
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Five years on: Embedding and Expanding Clinical Supervision within a Mental Health and Wellbeing Service
C Dunn
(PHCN VIC)
THERAPEUTIC
– CAMHS
Relationships and Reflections
C Pereira (Alfred)
SAFETY – LIGATURE
Developing a Training Package for Staff Responding to a Person Hanging or Using a Ligature Around the Neck
D Hansen Vella (Barwon)
EARLY CAREER RUSON
Cultivating the Next Generation of Mental Health Nurses, One MH-RUSON at a Time
B Blachford (Austin)
Strategy for Imbedding Recovery-oriented Principles into Practice – A Pilot in the Parent & Infant Unit (Grampians Mental Health and Wellbeing Service)
Delta
Therapy Dogs
11:00am – 12:30pm
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
1:20pm
Major Sponsor Introduction
Members Lounge (Level 2)
12:35pm
Lunch Break
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
1:25pm
Crisis as a Catalyst for Change
Helena Roennfeldt
KEYNOTE
thursday 8 august
Market Place (Level 1)
3:25pm
Afternoon Tea
5:00–7:00pm
Celebration Event. 25 Year Anniversary Drinks.
Market Place (Level 1)
Jockey Room (Level 2)
Download Program
Chill Out Space (Level 1)
Special Event: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Nurses & Students to come together
Break Out 4
Committee Room
Wellness Room
Parade Bar
Break Out 3
Jockey Room
SAFETY CO-DESIGN
W Johnson
(Alfred Health)
Enhancing Mental Health Care Delivery Through Co-designed Safewards Education: The Value of Lived Experience Integration
SAFETY CO-DESIGN
A Collaborative and Co-design Approach to Addressing Occupational Violence and Aggression in a Large Public Mental Health Care Service
SAFETY CO-DESIGN
Interdisciplinary Education Approach in Delivering Safewards Training in Eastern Health
K Pal
(Eastern Health)
TECHNOLOGY
Digital Health as an Adjunct Treatment Option
P Matheson
(Grampians)
Time
Block
Plenary Space
Celebrity Room
Break Out 1
Mounting Yard
Break Out 2
Valley View
Break Out 4
Committee Room
Wellness Room
Parade Bar
Break Out 3
Jockey Room
B4
12:15pm
THERAPEUTIC
– PET THERAPY
Pet Therapy: More Than a Treatment
C Neilson (Grampians Health)
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Debunking and embedding clinical supervision into practice
M Kelly (Alfred)
NEW MoC
Piecing the Jigsaw Together: Introducing a Comprehensive Trauma-Informed Therapeutic Model of Care on an Adolescent
In-Patient Ward
R Tolan (RCH)
WORKFORCE EN
Showcasing the Diversity of Mental Health Enrolled Nurses: A Day in the Life Video Series
O McDougall-Fisher (CMHL)
SAFETY CO-DESIGN
'We're Taking it up a Level': Incorporating LEW as Co-faciliators in Safewards Training
V Boyle
(Barwon Health)
B5
2:15pm
SAFETY – TIC
Safe Spaces, Sound Minds:
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Enhancing Sexual Safety in Mental Health Bed-Based Spaces
S Dua (Alfred)
WORKFORCE TRANSITION COMMUN CAMHS
Nurturing Transitions: Supporting Mental Health Nurses in the Transition to Community Mental Health
J Garwood (RCH)
THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE
Neuro-ecological Diversity: An Alternative to Shaming
H Peckham (CentreMHN)
EARLY CAREER ORIENTATION
Developing an Early in Career (EiC) Multidisciplinary Orientation Program
S Cullinan
(PHCN VIC)
MH IN GEN HEALTH
Improving Mental Health Literacy in a Children's Hospital
L Hainsworth (RCH)
B6
2:40pm
SAFETY – SENSORY IN SECU
The Beginning of a Culture Change in a Secure Extended Care Unit
S Giles (Grampians Health)
WORKFORCE TRANSITION COMMUN MAT
Creating Pathways: A Community Trainee Nurse Role in Youth Early Psychosis
S Ryan (Alfred)
THERAPEUTIC – TRAUMA EXPERIENCE
What Are Mental Health Nurses' Experiences of Personal and Professional Trauma?
K Foster (ACU)
EARLY CAREER ORIENTATION
Demystifying the Adolescent In-patient Mental Health Ward – Helping Our Colleagues Feel Comfortable to Walk Through the Door
K Richter (RCH)
MH IN GEN HEALTH
Is There a Place for Mental Health Nursing in Caring for Young People with Medically Compromised Eating Disorders in a General Medical Ward. The Potential for Future Models of Care.
U Gamlath
(Deakin)
Time
Block
Plenary Space
Celebrity Room
Break Out 1
Mounting Yard
Break Out 2
Valley View
Break Out 4
Committee Room
Wellness Room
Parade Bar
Break Out 3
Jockey Room
B7
3:05pm
SAFETY – AGED SAFEWARDS
Utilising the Safewards Simple Model to Enhance Care Plans in Acute Older Adult Mental Health Units
D Hristodoulidis (SVHA)
EDUCATION
Future Care Models - Mental Health Support Workers (MHSW) in Acute
Mental Health
S Ngwenya (Eastern Health)
EARLY CAREER PREQUAL GOALS
Nurturing Future Mental Health Professionals: Insights From the Mental Health Prequalified Employment Program – Early Workforce
O Ebanks (PHCN)
MH IN GEN HEALTH
Beyond Bias: Manoeuvring Through Stigma of MH Nurses’ Roles in Physical Deterioration
S Lim (Northern)
B8
3:50pm
SAFETY WORKFORCE
Lived Experience Led Practice Models – IPS and CRM
C Dixon
(Eastern Health)
EARLY CAREER – WELLBEING
Counter-
transference and Early Career Mental Health Nurses
G Oakley (Austin)
SAFETY –
PREVENT HARM
The Trends of Suicide Methods Chosen Over Time
M Tsatrafilis (Austin)
EARLY CAREER ORIENTATION
To Be, Or Not To Be (a Mental Health Nurse), That is the Question
M Regester (Stvs)
THERAPEUTIC TECHNOLOGY
Navigating AI in Mental Health Nursing: Opportunities and Risks
D Darmanin (Western Health)
B9
4:15pm
SAFETY TRAINING
Implementation of Lived / Living Experience Workforce to Crisis Services at Eastern Health
E Donley
(Eastern Health)
THERAPEUTIC – TIC
Fractured Attachment and Trauma in Young People
M Brand (Austin)
SAFETY – LIGATURE
A Statewide Victoria Approach to Improving Safety for Consumers Who Are at Harm of Ligature
J Davies
(Safer Care Vic)
EARLY CAREER SUPPORT
Inspiring Undergraduate Nursing Students to Become Mental Health Nurses
S Mareya (RMIT)
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Setting Up An ‘Internet Learning Café’ to Introduce Staff to a New Model of Care
M Adams
(Barwon Health)
5:00pm
End of Day One
Watercolour Basics
2:15pm –
3:00pm
Polymer Clay Accesories
3:30pm –
4:20pm
RESEARCH EVIDENCE
The Generation of Research for Forensic Mental Health Nurses and Beyond
T Maguire (Swinburne)
K Kerr
(Austin Health)
WORKFORCE NP PATHWAY
Mental Health Nursing – Endless Possibilities!
K Collidge (Alfred)
Market Place (Level 1)
10:25am
Morning Tea Break
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
9:00am
Market Place (Level 1)
8:00am
Registration/sign-in
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
8:45am
Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
Major Sponsor Introduction
Internationalisation in Mental Health Nursing
Professor Rhonda Wilson
KEYNOTE
day
two
Special Event: Student Gathering
Friday 9 august
2:50pm
Major Sponsor Introduction
Market Place (Level 1)
11:00am
Morning Tea Break
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
2:05pm
Major Sponsor Introduction
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
2:55pm
Celebrating the Win Win: Recognition and Mutual Regard Across MH Nurses and LE Workers
– Champion Panel
PANEL
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
3:55pm
Major Sponsor Introduction
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
4:00pm
Awards & Presentation
4:30pm
Conference Closing Day 2
Celebrity Room (Level 1)
Chill Out Space (Level 1)
Time
Block
Plenary Space
Celebrity Room
Break Out 1
Mounting Yard
Break Out 2
Valley View
Break Out 4
Committee Room
Wellness Room
Parade Bar
Break Out 3
Jockey Room
B13
10:40am
SAFETY – OV TRAINING / CAMHS
P.A.U.S.E!
A Collaborative Approach to Occupational Violence and Aggression
C Mitchell (RCH)
EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
Adapting to Sector Reforms: CMHL's Strategic Workforce Development and Leadership in Mental Health
MH IN GEN HEALTH
Guidelines for the Use of Restraint in Young People with Anorexia Through Collaborative Engagement (Grace)
N Brockenshire (UoM)
WORKFORCE RETAIN
Job Demands, Resources and Organisational Responsibility for Clinician Wellbeing: Evaluating Crisis Team Workload Management Systems
N Stresnjak (Mercy)
SYSTEM INCLUSION
Explaining the Mental Health Service Access and Utilisation by CALD Communities in Victoria Using Andersen's Behavioural Model of Health Service Use
R Radhamony (Fed Uni)
Pottery
10:00am – 10:45am
and
10:45am –
11:30am
(2 Sessions)
B11
9:50am
SAFETY – HARRASSM STAFF
Breaking the Silence on Gendered Violence in Mental Health
S Thuesen (HACSU)
RESEARCH / ACADEMIC ROLE
Preparing to be the Next Generation of Mental Health Nurses with PhDs
B Hayward (Monash)
MH IN GEN HEALTH
Restrictive Practices Whole of Health – Let’s Share the Learnings from Mental Health
A Love
(Safer Care Vic)
EARLY CAREER ORIENTATION
Fostering the Next Generation of Nurses in Acute Psychiatric Care
C Torres (Austin)
SYSTEM SAFETY
Elimination of Restrictive Interventions - A Whole of Service Approach
J Ten-Hoeve
(Eastern Health)
B12
10:15am
SAFETY – OV TRAINING / ADULT
Safety Interventions: The Introduction of Refresher Sessions in Supporting Staff Confidence
A Mennen (Grampians)
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP
Fast-tracked Into Leadership: Career Challenges and Prosperity
B Li
(Eastern Health)
MH IN GEN HEALTH
Empowering MHN Leadership, Research, Retention While Highlighting the Value of MHN Skills: Prevention and Management of Occupational Violence and Aggression Across Public Health Services
J Makhoul (Northern)
EARLY CAREER SUPPORT
Introduction of Graduate Support Nurse Role at Mercy Mental Health & Wellbeing Services
Y Annavee
(Mercy)
SYSTEM CAPABILITY
Our Workforce, Our Future – How the Capability Framework for Victoria’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce is Being Implemented
B Dunlop
(CMHL)
Meditative Drawing
9:30am – 10:00am
Time
Block
Plenary Space
Celebrity Room
Break Out 1
Mounting Yard
Break Out 2
Valley View
Break Out 4
Committee Room
Wellness Room
Parade Bar
Break Out 3
Jockey Room
B17
12:45pm
IMPROVEMENT SYMPOSIUM
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Does the Introduction of a First Nations Mental Health Nurse Improve Cultural Capability of Non-Indigenous Staff, Resulting in a More Culturally Safe Experience for Consumers?
CHILD & YOUTH
Intersection of Out-of-Home-Care and Community Mental Health Nursing
INCLUSION CULTURAL SAFETY
Perfume
Making
2:05pm –
2:50pm
J Stubbs (CMHL)
Q&A
R Helvig
H Peckham
(CentreMHN))
L Berrel (Alfred)
A McCartney
& R Britt
B14
11:30am
IMPROVEMENT SYMPOSIUM
(8 Presenters)
Towards Elimination of Restrictive Practices
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
A Relational, Experiential, and Translational Approach to Growing Clinical Supervisors: Perspectives, Reflections, and Insights
NEW MoC
McKellar Mental Health Wellbeing Unit - The 1st Purposely Built Without Seclusion Rooms and Two High Care Areas. How Are We Going Two Years Since Opening?
EARLY CAREER
Enriching Our Workforce: The Development and Implementation of a Contextualised Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Transition to Mental Health Novice Learner Year.
C Smith
(Eastern Health)
The Journey So Far
K Thwaites
T Kelly (CentreMHN)
S Barclay (Barwon Health)
M Adair
B15
11:55am
IMPROVEMENT SYMPOSIUM
Improving Sexual Safety
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Increasing Job Satisfaction of Mental Health Nurses Engaged in Clinical Supervision
C0-DESIGN MoC
Consumer Choice Pilot: Increasing Choice Through Non-clinical Interventions on an Acute Inpatient Unit
NEW TEAMS AND MHN ROLES
Implementation of Psychiatric
Enrolled Nurses to CATT and
Beyond at Eastern Health
E Donley
(Eastern Health)
Lived Experience Workforce and Quality
Improvement Project Teams Collaboration
A McCartney
S Wall (Peninsula)
T Pickup
(Monash Health)
R Helvig &
K Saltmarsh
B16
12:20pm
IMPROVEMENT SYMPOSIUM
Reducing Compulsory Treatment
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Introducing Group Clinical Supervision to Empower and Nurture our Workforce
C0-DESIGN MoC
Inclusive Engagement and Lessons Learned From a Lived/Living-Experience Led Co-design of a Tier 3 Community Infant, Child & Youth MH&W Service
INCLUSION WORKFORCE
Our LGBTQIA+ Colleagues: It’s Not All Cupcakes and Rainbows
C Scaffidi
(Barwon Health)
Zero Suicide Framework
T Goh & M Tsiros
C Cummins (Bendigo)
M Keller-Tuberg (PH)
No Needles Knitted Pillows
11:30am – 12:15pm
Time
Block
Plenary Space
Celebrity Room
Break Out 1
Mounting Yard
Break Out 2
Valley View
Break Out 4
Committee Room
Wellness Room
Parade Bar
Break Out 3
Jockey Room
B19
2:30pm
HOLISTIC HEALTH
Implemention of Equally well Framework in Victoria - Journey at Eastern Health Mental Health and Wellbeing Program
LE EDUCATOR
MODELS OF CARE
So Now We Know Experiences
Shape Brains. So What?
Let's C.H.AT. About the
Neuroplastic Narrative.
Beyond the DSM: Embedding Lived Experience into Eating Disorder Education for Pre-registration Nursing Students
L Mercer (SVHA)
H Singh
(Eastern)
R Molloy
(Monash Uni)
A Hansen (Monash)
B18
2:10pm
EDU DETERIORATING PATIENT
Is Vital Signs Assessment Important in the Acute Mental Health Setting? A Review of Fundamental Nursing Textbooks
EDUCATION SUPPORT
Nurse Practitioners Lead the Way: Inspiring the Next Generation of NP’s to Develop Innovative Roles
RESEARCH ROLE
Mental Health Nurse as Researcher: Reflexivity in Mixed Methods Research With Women in Forensic Settings
Enhancing Mental Health Nursing Graduate Preparedness: The Role of Simulation in Nursing Education
Rose McCrohan
2:10pm–2:50pm
P Foo
(Eastern Health)
C Hayes
(Monash Uni)
The Mental Health
Capability Frameworks as a Foundation for Improvement
R Helvig
Spotlight: Equally Well
Group Reflective Practice – An Approach to Supporting Clinical Supervision Engagement for Nurses Working in Inpatient Settings
A Capello
(Eastern Health)
J Naqqash
(Eastern)
EDUCATION SUPPORT
Nurture, Inspire, Empower & Retain – Cultivating & Sustaining a Positive Workplace & Culture of Accountability
Self Massage Techniques for Relaxation
12:20pm – 1:05pm
KEY NOTE
LE CRISIS SERVICE
Welcoming Difference: The RMH Safe Haven Model
of Care
F Brianton (RMH)
INCLUSION CULTURAL SAFETY
Cultural Safety in Mental Health Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
A Lipscomb (VACCA)
Members Lounge (Level 2)
1:05pm
Lunch Break
J Reece
(PHCN)
LE EDUCATOR
Lived Experience Educators: Key Ingredients in Fostering Organisational Cultural Change and Co-production Approaches
