Primary mental health care conference 2013

• Date:

  15 - 16 March 2013

• Location:

  Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

• Category:

  Possibility of Indigenous content

Overview

Partnership, team work, and cooperation are all essential to ensure effective collaboration. Nurses have long held a role of collaborator and coordinator within the multi-disciplinary team, and reforms in primary health care will require nurses to strengthen and promote good collaborative practice.

At this conference nurses will be working together to explore the barriers and enablers to effective collaborative practice. There will be presentations that look at therapeutic interventions, case studies of collaborations, primary mental health reforms, and the role of the mental health nurse in the Mental health nurse incentive program.

The conference will consider collaborations through many dimensions:

• with consumers and carers
• between primary mental health care services and community services
• between health professionals
• between primary mental health care and other parts of the health system.

Contacts

Australian College of Mental Health Nurses
PO Box 154
Deakin West ACT 2600
Ph: (02) 6285 1078
Ph: 1300 667 079
Fax: (02) 6285 2166
Email: enquiries@acmhn.org

Links

• View information: Primary mental health care conference 2013
• View website: Australian College of Mental Health Nurses