Welcome to the International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference 2020, which in the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife is happening online as part of #mhTV through a collaboration between Unite/Mental Health Nurses Association, WeMHNurses, Mental Health Nurse Academics UK, and the Centre for Coproduction in Mental Health and Social Care in the Middlesex University School of Health and Education.
Between Tuesday 15th September and Friday 25th September we will be running episodes that will feature evening panel discussions supplemented by presentations from each contributor that will be available to watch beforehand. You can see all the #MHNR2020 presentation on Facebook via: https://www.facebook.com/watch/UniteMHNA/1020046081766825/ or YouTube via: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbbbGYObfkpQTWUFz_UkMl-ivCtoV-8s.
Episode 1 [originally broadcast on Tuesday 15 September 2020] was on the theme of 'community mental health care' and featured three panellists:
Sarah Amani is a Senior Programme Manager for the South of England Early Intervention in Psychosis Programme which is commissioned by NHS England and hosted by University of Oxford. She is a mental health nurse by background and has previously worked in a range of healthcare settings including acute and community mental health teams. More recently, Sarah has worked in strategic roles as Regional Lead for Youth Mental Health for the then South East Strategic Health Authority and as Chief Clinical Information Officer. Sarah’s work has previously won several HSJ awards and a fellowship with the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Elissa Thompson works part time as a community mental health nurse and part time as a research nurse at Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT. She has previously been involved in the development of the Personality Disorder clinical pathways in the trust and has recently completed a MSc in Psychological Research Methods with Advanced Statistics. She is passionate about patient involvement in research and designing services and peer work. Her research interests lie in the development and implementation of better evidence based care for people receiving a service for difficulties associated with a personality disorder diagnosis.
Dr. Nick Weaver recently completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof Michael Coffey, and is a lecturer in mental health nursing at the School of Healthcare Sciences in Cardiff University. His clinical experience is in acute psychiatry, psychotherapeutic approaches and treatment of substance abuse and addiction issues. Research interests include recovery, care continuity and coordination, applied social theory, critical psychiatry, discourse theory and complex systems theory. His most recent publication, in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, is 'Concepts, models and measurement of continuity of care in mental health services: A systematic appraisal of the literature'.
The #MHNR2020 presenters are:
Nicky Lambert, Vanessa Garrity, Ben Hannigan and Mick McKeown
Some Twitter links to follow presenters and guests are:
SA - https://twitter.com/S_Amani
ET - https://twitter.com/rosina_anne
NL - https://twitter.com/niadla
VG - https://twitter.com/VanessaRNMH
BH - https://twitter.com/benhannigan
MM - https://twitter.com/mickmckeown2016
Credits:
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: Dave Munday (https://twitter.com/davidamunday)
