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Editor’s note... Hi Readers, We are delighted to welcome you to Issue 7 of The Health Scoop magazine featuring Mental Health. Cancer Council’s Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea fundraiser begins next month! It’s a frightening statistic that 1 in 2 Australians will be diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85. You can help make a difference by hosting a morning tea fundraiser on Thursday 23 May, or anytime during the months of May or June. All funds raised go towards cancer research, prevention and support. See page 6 for further details. This issue, we feature the up-coming conference, Happiness & Its Causes 2013. Held in Melbourne on June 19 and 20, this landmark event, featuring more than 35 speakers including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, will be examining the means to a more happy and meaningful life. As a reader of The Health Scoop, receive a 25% discount when you register, or simply ‘Like’ our Facebook page for entry details to win a free ticket! If you would like to promote an event, share a story with us, or sign up to receive a copy of our publication, please email us at editor@healthscoop.com.au. Our next issue will arrive on Monday 29 April featuring Nursing. Until then, take care.
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Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) The link between mental health and chronic illness
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Black Dog Institute New tool for treating patients with depression The online Mood Assessment Program is a free and clinically validated tool developed by the Black Dog Institute to provide assistance with accurate diagnosis of mood disorders for health care practitioners. Patients with suspected depression or history of depression can be referred to the online tool to gather information that helps determine depression severity and subtype, the likelihood of bipolar disorder, the influence of anxiety disorders and lifestyle, and the personality factors which make each person vulnerable to depression – all of which have significant impact on the choice of treatment appropriate for the individual. Knowing depression subtype is important because it means we are not treating depression on the basis of severity alone. We know that those who suffer from non-melancholic depression, however severe, may well benefit from psychological intervention without medications. Prescribing in the case of non-melancholic depression can be restricted to those who do not respond to psychological interventions and those who need help with anxiety symptoms accompanying their depression. For patients with melancholic or psychotic depression with low mood that is accompanied by psychomotor change and sometimes by psychotic features, correct medication is imperative. It can sometimes be difficult clinically to make the distinction between melancholic and non-melancholic depression and an online MAP can be very helpful, in conjunction with your clinical assessment, in making that very important distinction. Getting a sense of the likelihood of bipolar disorder is the 10
other important area to consider in terms of making the right decisions about medications. The MAP contains a reliable screening test for bipolar disorder as well. In addition, the MAP’s integrated personality and temperament questionnaire can give you some valuable information about your patient’s vulnerability to depression, reporting as it does on the 8 areas of personality known to increase vulnerability. This information can be very useful in directing psychological management. A MAP Report also includes self-reported information about anxiety symptoms, lifestyle, stressors and past treatments that may have been missed in the setting of the clinical consultation.
What does the MAP involve? When you refer patients to the online MAP they log on to a secure website and complete a comprehensive and reliable set of self-report questionnaires. The questionnaire takes about an hour to complete and the report is available to you, as the referring practitioner, immediately. Due to the complexity of the report, this is not readily available to patients and can be discussed in detail with their practitioner so a well- informed treatment plan can begin. When you register with MAP, you will receive an access code that identifies you as the patient’s referring clinician, enabling us to send the reports directly to you. Medical Practitioners, Psychologists and Mental Health Social Workers are all eligible to refer to the online MAP. This is a free service the Black Dog Institute provides to patients and referrers as part of its ongoing commitment to providing evidence-based support to the mental health of the community.
To take advantage of this service you simply need to register as a referrer online at: http://www. blackdoginstitute.org.au/healthprofessionals/ map/overview.cfm
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Mental Health Pippa Blackburn Senior Social Worker, South West Specialist Palliative Care Service West Australian Country Health Service – South West
Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health Improving bereavement support in rural settings Mourning the death of a family member has unique aspects for people living in rural Australia, according to WA social worker Pippa Blackburn, who was just awarded a $30,000 scholarship through Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH). Pippa hopes to improve bereavement support in rural settings through her studies towards a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at Griffith University. Pippa’s interest in bereavement was sparked by a death in her family, and by her day job as a palliative care social worker in the South-West of WA, where she works closely with palliative care nurses and other primary health care providers, families and patients facing the end of their 12
lives. She noticed that rural and remote palliative care was challenged by a lack of resources, outdated models of bereavement support and the close-knit ties of rural communities. “The professional is personal in rural areas,” she said. “When palliative care nurses are nursing someone who is dying, it is often someone they know, so it can be more challenging for them to keep a professional distance. A lot of the time nurses – and doctors – in rural settings are disenfranchised in their own grief.” She said the accepted models for managing bereavement tended to focus on psychological risk assessment, while neglecting the complex impacts of a death in the family,
such as the social, legal and financial strain. They also lacked the benefit of latest research into building resilience in affected family members and allowing a more flexible understanding of mourning without prescribing timeframes on a person’s grief. “The current approach is to assess people for psychological illness who may be “at risk” for complicated bereavement after the death, but only a small percentage of the bereaved population will be in this category,” she said. “If you put in supports early, before the family member has died, you can prevent many problems later on.” “A lot of my referrals are young parents who are dying. Social work is a profession that has a particular skill set around bereavement because we can work with the families to get the supports they need by linking them into the whole system early to lessen the psychological, legal, financial and social impacts.” Normalising the grief experience across the lifespan is a key aspect of new approaches to understanding bereavement, along with resilience and post traumatic growth. She would like the advice on length of grieving to be more realistic: “When you lose someone, the grief can be enduring and has peaks throughout a lifetime, not just in the first year after a death.” Pippa plans to delve into the latest international research to develop a model for bereavement that is easy for rural health services to use. “I want to translate global research into something practical and useful for rural palliative care nurses and allied health providers,” she said. For information about the Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship and Support Scheme, funded by the Federal Department of Health and Ageing, please visit www.sarrah.org.au
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Mental Health His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso with Professor Marco Iacoboni, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles at Happiness & Its Causes 2011.
Happiness & Its Causes Conference 2013 According to the Beatles, happiness was a warm gun; Coca Cola suggests it can be found in a bottle of black bubbly liquid; and Aristotle declared that attaining it was the “meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” But whatever your thoughts on happiness, you can be guaranteed to be stimulated with plenty of food for thought at the Happiness & Its Causes conference to be held in Melbourne on June 19 and 20. This is the first time this landmark event, featuring more than 35 speakers including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, has been staged in Melbourne but over the past eight years, it has become one of the world’s leading forums examining the means to a more happy and meaningful life. 14
Tony Steel, CEO of the World Happiness Forum, says the organisation is very excited about bringing Happiness & Its Causes to Melbourne for the first time. “Having the participation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama makes it really special and ensures that the conference will make a major impact. In Melbourne, he will be espousing words of wisdom on compassion and happiness in an intimate conversation with ABC Radio National presenter Natasha Mitchell before joining in a unique dialogue with a panel of world-renowned scientists in the Science of Mind Forum,” Mr Steel says. “The conference is a fast-paced mix of science, philosophy and psychology with an emphasis on practical strategies for enhancing happiness and well-being.”
Mr Steel says the topics covered by the speakers and workshops can be beneficial not only to individuals but also in their ability to help others.
down and another of the highlights of this year’s Happiness & Its Causes conference will be Carl Honoré’s In Praise of Slow session.
“The conference is of great interest not just to individuals who want to enhance their own happiness, but also to workplaces, schools, hospitals – in fact any organisation that deals with people. The conference has a big focus on how to help others because the research shows that this is actually one of the best ways of helping yourself to happiness!”
Honoré is a UK-based award-winning journalist, author and leading proponent of the Slow Movement having written a number of books that examine our compulsion to hurry. In Melbourne, he will be challenging this cult of speed and suggesting that a rich and productive life needs a good balance of fast and slow.
With world-renowned speakers from the fields of psychology, philosophy, education, economics, spirituality and the arts along with personal stories of finding happiness, the conference sessions will offer tools and techniques for achieving your own personal happiness goals. In addition to the full morning session with the Dalai Lama, the conference will also bring to Melbourne international experts including Professor Ed Diener, Dr Helen Fisher and Professor Carol Dweck from the US and Carl Honoré and Nic Marks from the UK. This will be a rare opportunity to hear from Professor Diener being his first visit in over 25 years and his first ever public presentation in Australia. Professor Diener is the Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois and has held the position of president of three scientific organisations: International Society of Quality of Life Studies, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and the International Positive Psychology Association. Professor Diener’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of “subjective well-being”, positive feelings, life satisfaction, and low levels of negative feelings. At this year’s conference, he will be presenting on The New Science of Happiness covering its importance, contributing factors, and the positive outcomes associated with higher levels of happiness. Fellow American, Dr Helen Fisher is a Biological Anthropologist and Research Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a leading expert on the biology of gender differences, love and human personality.
How to attain a productive, fulfilled and happy life will also be at the centre of the presentation by Professor Carol Dweck, a leading researcher in the field of motivation and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University in California. Her best selling book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, has been widely acclaimed and translated into 20 languages and it is this that will form the basis for her session that explores the concepts of success and failure, motivation and how we can learn to achieve our full potential. Local speakers will include Australia’s favourite cartoonist philosopher, Michael Leunig, Father Bob Maguire and Gretel Killeen with Claire Bowditch and Nigel Westlake providing inspiration as they share their stories of overcoming adversity and finding happiness. If you want to delve in even deeper, there will also be a series of small workshops held on June 18 and June 21 either side of the conference led by some of the prominent speakers. The venue, Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre, will also play host to a bookshop and mini-market with exhibition stalls offering a range of products to assist you in your search for happiness and wellbeing, for yourself and others.
For more information, to book or download a brochure see: www.happinessanditscauses.com.au This is an edited extract of a feature article that appeared in The Age on 2 March 2013.
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Mental Health
Adjunct Associate Professor Kim Ryan, CEO of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses
Australian College of Mental Health Nurses The link between mental health and chronic illness The World Health Organisation tenet no health without mental health recognises the significant interrelationship between physical and mental health. Many physical health conditions increase the risk of mental illness, while poor mental health is known to increase the risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and cancer. Comorbidity of physical illness and mental health issues impacts on whether people seek help, diagnosis and treatment, and impacts on their physical and mental recovery. i Good mental health is a protective factor in prevention and self-management of chronic disease.
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Improving the identification, early intervention, treatment and management of mental illness in people with a chronic physical illness is an important component of addressing the burden of chronic disease in Australia. Chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and obesity and co-morbid mental illness are associated with increased health care use and increased health care costs. For example, comorbid depression and physical illnesses have been estimated to increase individual costs of health care alone by as much as 50% in high income countries.ii Costs can be significantly higher for some conditions – such as diabetes and depression, with health care costs for people with these co-morbid conditions being 4.5 times greater
than those with ‘uncomplicated’ diabetes.iii There are over a quarter of a million nurses and midwives providing nursing services in Australia.iv Unlike other professional groups, the nursing and midwifery workforce is relatively evenly spread throughout rural and regional Australia and across all health settings.v To ensure good health outcomes, it is critical to educate nurses about the co-morbidity of mental illness and chronic disease, and to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and manage the mental health of clients. Every nurse at some stage will work with a client who is at risk of developing, has developed, or is showing early signs and symptoms of mental disturbance.vi With appropriate training, nurses and midwives can play an essential role in the prevention of mental health problems, and in identifying those who are experiencing early symptoms, and are critical to the provision of timely, effective and appropriate treatment services to people with mental health problems, mental disorder or mental illness.vii To maximise health outcomes and improve the patient journey for people with chronic disease, the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses will shortly be releasing a series of online resources aimed at improving the knowledge and skills of nurses to identify and manage mental health conditions associated with chronic disease. These online resources will attract continuing professional development points.
M. Prince, V. Patel, S. No health without mental health, The Lancet, Volume 370, Issue 9590, Pages 859-877
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ii Chisholm D. et al. Depression status, medical co-morbidity and resource costs. Evidence from an international study of major depression in primary care (LIDO). British Journal of Psychiatry. 2003. 183: p. 121-31 iii Egede L, Zheng D, K. Simpson. Comorbid depression is associated with increased health care use and expenditures in individuals with diabetes. Diabetes Care 2002; 25 (3): 464-470.) iv Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), 2009. Nursing and midwifery labour force 2007. National health labour force series No.43. AIHW Cat. No. HWL 44. AIHW: Canberra. v Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (2008). Report on the Audit of Health Workforce in Rural and Regional Australia, April 2008. Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra. vi Happell, B and Platania-Phung, C. (2005) Mental health issues within the general health care system: implications for the nursing profession, Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing 22:41-47
World Health Organization, Atlas : nurses in mental health 2007, Geneva
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For further information about these resources, go to http://www.acmhn.org/career-resources/ chronicdisease.html
Focusing on four chronic disease areas - cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and respiratory disease - these resources will provide nurses with the knowledge and skills to: understand the relationship between chronic disease and associated mental health conditions; identify and assess mental illness and mental health issues in patients with chronic diseases; support patients with chronic diseases to manage co-existing mental illness and mental health issues, while maintaining good mental health; and work effectively and collaboratively with consumers, carers, other health professionals and service providers to present integrated care to patients. It is my hope that these resources will be an important step within the Australian health system to help identify and appropriately manage co-morbid chronic disease and mental illness. 17
Indigenous Health
Child Health Nurse, Milly Cahill.
Health Heroes Recognising Remote Area Health Heroes You can be a Health Hero too – The Australian Government is committed to increasing the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people working in health. We talk to two people who are supporting the government’s Health Heroes campaign, and explore their journey into the health sector. Milly Cahill is a Child Health Nurse in the Broome Regional Aboriginal Medical Service. After joining the health service in Western Australia as an Aboriginal Health Worker, Milly was persuaded to study nursing by a group of local nurses. Milly cites the opportunity to help her community as a major factor in her career decision.
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Milly loves working as a nurse in a smaller community setting as it allows her to build really strong relationships with community members and other service providers, “I love working with children, their mothers and the wider community to help deliver the best health results possible for our kids.” Milly is just one of the stories featured as part of the Australian Government’s Health Heroes campaign which aims to encourage more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students to pursue a job in the health sector. The Health Heroes campaign supports a cause Milly feels very strongly about: “If you want to work in Indigenous
health, you have to be passionate about it,” she says. “We need more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals. We know our communities intimately, we know the everyday issues everyone faces and we can therefore contribute to long-lasting, positive health impacts in our communities.” Not too far away, in the Kimberly, Stanley Ozies followed an unconventional pathway to his current role as an Aboriginal Health Practitioner at Derby Aboriginal Health Service. “I had been working as a road grader and a heavy machine operator,” Stanley says. “I came into town for a break and was asked if I’d do some driving for the local Aboriginal Health Service, which eventually led to a full-time job and now here I am!” “I think it’s important to have more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people working in health, because people
like me are often too proud and too stubborn, to get treatment,” he says. “I’ve seen a few mates die from prostate cancer and asked myself, ‘what’s the point of being so tough?’ We need to get some help.” Stanley is now a fully qualified Aboriginal Health Practitioner and is part of a push to improve eye-care in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities through pioneering Teleophthalmology – screening of the eye for diseases. “When I started, we were screening patients with a Polaroid camera! You’d have to wait two months to get the results. Now we’re moving with the times and use new digital retinal cameras, so we can download the images immediately and send them off directly to the ophthalmologist in Perth.” To find out more about working in health, visit the Health Heroes website at www.australia.gov.au/healthheroes or email healthheroes@health.gov.au.
Aboriginal Health Practitioner, Stanley Ozies.
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Up-coming Courses and Conferences Queensland Emotional Resilience Training for Nurses Banyo Library, 284 St Vincent’s Rd, Banyo 26 April 2013, 8.30am - 4.30pm dean@personaledge.com.au Investment: Just $229 • • • • •
Increase your confidence Improve your self-esteem Achieve greater awareness Create healthier relationships Be happier and enjoy better health!
This breakthrough program empowers nurses and helps you improve your work and personal life. In the course of a day, we look at your existing internal skills and resources and take you on a step-by-step guided journey through specific activities and processes that build resilience, develop confidence and increase self-esteem. Rave review: “I was lucky enough to have been in Dean King’s course. His willingness to give of his time went above and beyond what was required. His professionalism, sincerity, knowledge and support is exceptional. Thanks for helping me out on this part of my professional development and I look forward to working with you again.”- Tony This course has been designed by nurses for nurses. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to develop yourself. To find out more or to reserve your place call Dean at: 0401 444 093 or email dean@personaledge.com.au
Professional Development, as per The College of Nursing CPD Program. What is behind the Emergency Department (ED) bottle neck? This conference will examine innovative models for improving waiting times, and access block with an emphasis on safe, quality of care. This conference will address: • The health system that creates an eD pressure • Meeting national health quality and safety standards by strengthening safe, quality service delivery • Balancing the Neat with the National elective surgery target priorities (NEST) • Utilising accurate data to measure performance improvement and drive change
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Northern Territory Transition to Remote Area Nursing Darwin: Mon 17 June - 5 July Alice Springs: Mon 5 - 22 August Ph: (08) 8951 4700, E: crh.shortcourse@flinders.edu.au Centre for Remote Health offers a three-week face-to-face program that prepares Registered Nurses to work as Remote Area Nurses and articulates with Flinders University Award courses.
New South Wales Timely Access to Emergency Departments Bayview Boulevard, Sydney, NSW 29 - 30 May 2013 www.accesstoemergency.com This conference will attract 10.6 hours of Continuing
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South Australia Indigenous Informatics Conference (IIC) 2013 Adelaide Convention Centre, SA 15 July 2013 www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2013indigenous Registration Now Open! IIC 2013: Linking Social Determinants of Health: the Indigenous Informatics Challenges and Opportunities. The conference will build on the success of the inaugural Indigenous Informatics Workshop 2011. Details of the program will be released shortly.
Victoria ICN 25th Quadrennial Congress Equity and Access to Health Care Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, VIC 18 - 23 May 2013 www.icn2013.ch The ICN 25th Quadrennial Congress will bring together evidence, experience and innovations highlighting the critical importance of equity and access to health care for communities and individuals, demonstrating how nurses are key to ensuring equal access and quality of health care for all. The Congress will provide a global platform for the dissemination of nursing knowledge and leadership across specialities, cultures and countries via the ICN scientific programme, featuring keynote and main session invited speakers as well as a wide range of concurrent sessions including dynamic papers accepted through our highly competitive abstract selection process.
Delivering Consumer Directed Aged Care Royce Hotel, Melbourne, VIC 21 - 22 May 2013 www.consumeragedcare.com
This conference will equip you with strategies to successfully implement consumer directed care (CDC) models in your organisation. From July 2015 all packages, including pre-existing packages will be consumer directed. Given this rapid shift, it is vital to have the right resources and strategies in place for quality, cost effective service delivery in competitive times. This conference will address how to: • Deliver responsive and varied care • Remain competitive via effective marketing and communication • Implement quality monitoring systems to ensure quality service delivery • Develop effective client quoting and financial reporting systems “Consumer Directed Care delivers services that allow consumers and their carers to have greater control over their own lives” The Hon Mark Butler MP, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, 2012.
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Western Australia ACMHN’s 39th Annual International Mental Health Nursing Conference Pan Pacific Hotel Perth, WA 22 - 24 October 2013 www.acmhnconferences.acmhn.org “Collaboration and Partnerships in Mental Health Nursing” This year’s theme “Collaboration and Partnerships in Mental Health Nursing” reflects the changing practice domain and the importance of partnerships to the profession. We invite speakers and delegates to consider the significance of collaboration and partnerships to their professional lives and in the positioning of the profession into the future. The host committee believe that the theme will provide opportunity for speakers to address a wide range of mental health issues, and give a wide range for sub-themes.
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Healthy recipes... Apple & Rosemary Infused “Tea”
Emily Tan of Fuss Free Cooking joins us fortnightly sharing her delicious healthy recipes...
What you will need: • • • •
1 tsp of honey 1/2 small apple, thinly sliced 1 stalk of rosemary 1 cup of hot boiling water
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In a heat proof glass, add honey, sliced apples and rosemary stalk. Then pour in hot water and stir gently to dissolve the honey. Allow apple and rosemary to steep for 4 to 5 minutes until the flavours are well infused.
Mexican Style Kale & Bean Stew What you will need: • • • • • • • • • • • •
Olive oil 1 large red onion, peeled & diced 4 fat cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped 3/4 tbsp dried oregano 1/4 tbsp cumin powder 1 x 400g can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 x 400g can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed 5 leaves of kale (used the cavolo nero variety), finely sliced 700g passata (Italian cooking tomato sauce) 1 – 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, deseeded and finely chopped Salt to taste A handful of chopped fresh coriander leaves for garnish
* Serves 4
Method: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Add a little olive oil in a large pan and sauté onion until translucent. Add garlic, oregano and cumin powder and sauté until aromatic over low heat. Add chickpeas, beans and kale and mix to combine with the onion mixture. Pour in passata and chopped chipotle peppers and mix to combine all the ingredients. With a lid on, simmer the beans for 10 minute over low-medium heat. Add salt to taste and simmer for another minute or two. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves before serving. Best eaten with brown rice and a garlic-flavoured yoghurt.
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Mental Health First Aid for Nursing and Medical Students This initiative is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Australia, a national not-for-profit health promotion charity focused on training and research to increase mental health literacy of the community, is currently developing tailored Mental Health First Aid Courses for medical and nursing students. These courses teach medical and nursing students how to assist their peers (and other adults) when they are developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The content is based on the Standard MHFA Course (for adults helping other adults), which is informed by a number of expert consensus studies.
Attend a Course The training will be available via 12-hour face-to-face courses, or via e-learning (self-paced, approximately 6-8 hours to complete). E-learning will be available from August 2013 and details of Instructors accredited to deliver the face-to-face courses will be available on the MHFA website from May 2013. Check the MHFA website here for updates: www.mhfa.com.au/cms/frontline
Become an Instructor We are currently inviting suitably experienced individuals to apply for a 5-day MHFA Instructor Training Course so that they can conduct the courses to medical or nursing students. Up until September 2013, the course fee of $3,500 is waived. Applicants must have a suitable qualification and/ or experience in medicine or nursing, and be able to deliver at least 3 MHFA courses to their chosen target group before June 2014. More info on selection criteria under the ‘Be an Instructor’ tab of the MHFA website: www.mhfa.com.au If you are interested, please contact Nataly Bovopoulos (Deputy CEO of MHFA Australia) at: natalyb@mhfa.com.au or (03) 9079 0200 Universities and TAFEs who are interested in delivering MHFA Courses to their medical and/or nursing students should also contact Nataly. More information about these tailored MHFA courses available at the MHFA website, here:
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