Welcome to the International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference 2020. 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 6 (part 1) [originally broadcast on Monday 21 September 2020] was on the theme of ‘Advancing practice' and featured three panellists:
Carrie-Ann Black works at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, as both a Research and Implementation Nurse Lead in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and one of 70 Senior Nurse Research Leaders working on behalf of the National Institute for Health Research. Her part-time PhD leads her to explore the factors within a health care organisations which support successful sustainability of an intervention and the relationships between these factors.
Stephen McKenna-Lawson qualified as a mental health nurse in 2018 and has worked in adult PICU, neuropsychiatry and CAHMs services. Stephen is an editorial board member of the Mental Health Nursing Journal and has presented original research at this conference in 2017 and 2019. Then, as now, his primary interest remains the personhood of caregivers and the act of caring itself. He is an alumnus of the University of London and the NHS Staff College Leadership Programme.
Dr Jane McKeown works at Sheffield Health and Social care NHS FT as Senior Nurse Research Lead and is one of the 70 nurses and midwives across England on the National Institute for Health Research 70@70 Senior Nurse and Midwife Research Leader Programme. Jane also works as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sheffield, Division of Nursing and Midwifery. Jane's PhD focussed on exploring the use of life story work with people living with dementia in health and social care and she has an interest in developing and evaluating approaches to enable people living with dementia to share their views and experiences.
The #MHNR2020 presenters are:
Nicky Lambert, Vanessa Garrity, Ben Hannigan & Mick McKeown, RGN, RMN, Professor of democratic mental health, University of Central Lancashire, Unison National Nursing Sector Committee & Board member, Preston Cooperative Development Network.
Some Twitter links to follow presenters and guests are:
SML - https://twitter.com/sjpmck
JM - https://twitter.com/janemckeown1
NL - https://twitter.com/niadla
VG - https://twitter.com/VanessaRNMH
BH - https://twitter.com/benhannigan
MM - https://twitter.com/mickmckeown2016
Credits:
Presenters: Nicky Lambert, Vanessa Garrity & Ben Hannigan
Panellists: Carrie-Ann Black, Stephen McKenna-Lawson & Dr Jane McKeown
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: Dave Munday (https://twitter.com/davidamunday)
