Welcome to episode 116 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 22 February 2023] of #mhTV. This week Vanessa Gilmartin and Nicky Lambert spoke with guests Elaine Armstrong, Colette Henderson & Paul Smith about advanced practice.
EA - Elaine Armstrong is a new Mental Health Lecturer at the University of Dundee. She has been a clinical nurse for 15 years working briefly as an inpatient nurse and then, working in various community settings. Her last post was an Advance Nurse Practitioner in mental Health within a community Mental Health Team.
She is involved in the Scottish Advanced Practice Mental Health forum and has presented at this discussing the four Pillars in one project. Elaine is going to be part of the mental health module team this academic year.
CH - Colette is an experienced advanced practitioner and educator who currently works at the University of Dundee as the programme lead for the MSc Advanced Practice programme.
Colette established and is the current chair of the Scottish Advanced Practice Educators Network (SAPEN). SAPEN is a multidisciplinary collaboration comprising of all higher education institutes in Scotland offering advanced practice programmes, NHS Education for Scotland and NHS board practice colleagues representation. Colette is a Scottish representative on the committee of the Association of Advanced Practice Educators UK (AAPE UK), Co-Chair of the Communications subgroup of the ICN Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nurse Network and one of the deputy chairs of the North of Scotland Advanced Practice academy.
PS - Paul Smith is a mental health lecturer at the University of Dundee. He has been a clinical nurse for 14 years working in inpatient and community settings and joined Dundee University after working as a clinical nurse educator with NHS Fife.
Developing practice that has an impact on how the mental health nurses respond to patients who are suicidal and the physical wellbeing of patients with mental health problems are key educational interests.
He is currently module leader for a mental health module in advanced practice at the University of Dundee and has an interest and commitment in developing the approaches of mental health within advanced practice.
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Credits:
#mhTV Presenters: Vanessa Gilmartin, Nicky Lambert & David Munday
Guests: Elaine Armstrong, Colette Henderson & Paul Smith
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday
