Health and Community Services Union

As joint hosts the Centre for Psychiatric Nursing, The Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (Vic Branch), The Health and Community Services Union and the Australian Nursing Federation invite you to attend this exciting conference.

The aim of this conference is to focus on the practice of psychiatric nursing and how this practice contributes to better health outcomes for the consumers of services.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words are invited for 30 minute paper, poster and 60 or 90 minute workshop presentations that focus on the practice of psychiatric nursing. All posters submitted for the conference will be entered into the Conference Poster Competition with a $100 Gift Voucher going to the winning entry. Papers with a focus on recovery from mental health problems are particularly encouraged.

Themes below are listed for your consideration but papers need not be restricted to only those shown.

• Innovation in practice
• Sustainability of psychiatric nursing
• Consumer perspectives
• Carer perspectives
• Clinically-based research
  and evaluation
• Psychiatric nursing across
  the life-span
• Rural issues
• Cultural and indigenous issues
• Dual diagnosis
• Dual disability
• Recovery