#EarlyView Workplace resilience and emotional labour of Australian mental health nurses: Results of a national survey. Cynthia Delgado et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

How to Build Effective #Leadership with These 8 Qualities Lolly Daskal bit.ly/2LLIIYx #LeadFromWithin #Leadership #Management #HR #Success #Manager #Lead

It's not that #mindfulness solves any particular problem. It's that it opens us to up to see possible solutions.

Resilience is more than individual strength...and there is more to self-help than personal determination. Read an excerpt from my new bookChange Your World in today's The Globe and Mail ow.ly/ACJ150upxAL

Doing resilience research? Here is my latest paper on research design-Open access ow.ly/SNKJ50vm8ql

Want To Build Resilience? Great piece by Marianna Pogosyan in Psychology Today ow.ly/BOQd50vpspp

“Frequent exposure to emotional adversity can negatively impact mental health nurses’ biopsychosocial well‐being, workplace relationships, and performance.” Cynthia Delgado et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

A safety plan is a document that supports and guides someone when they are experiencing thoughts of suicide, to help them avoid a state of intense suicidal crisis. Anyone in a trusting relationship with the person at risk can help draft the plan. suicideinfo.ca/resource/safet…

Workplace Respect. A respectful workplace brings enormous benefits to organizations. Employees who say they feel respected are more satisfied with their jobs, more resilient, cooperate more with others, perform better and more creatively. hbr.org/2018/07/do-you…

A privilege and an amazing opportunity to meet and speak with more than 30 mental health nursing leaders at the SESLHD Clinical Nurse Consultant Professional Development Day. Mental health nurses doing amazing work and impacting positively on their service users.

We encourage our students to respectfully enter into a person's conceptualisation of ‘their’ distress; helping the person to ‘feel felt’ and validated by the worker. Trusting person centred #traumainformed #MentalHealth care is critical. See here.. cambridge.org/au/academic/su…

‘What would a trauma‐informed mental health service look like?’ Perspectives of people who access services onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #EarlyView of article by Sophie Isobel (@SophsNo), Allyson Wilson, Katherine Gill + Deborah Howe

Collaboration between mental health consumers and nurses: Shared understandings, dissimilar experiences. Andrea McCloughen, Donna Gillies + Louise O’Brien onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #10YearsAgo #FromTheArchives IJMHN Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2011

“Our findings are important for clinicians, nurse managers, and policymakers considering strategies for improving the workplace environment... The long‐term impact of resilience programmes may improve nurse retention and recruitment.” Cathy Henshall et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Isobel, S., Wilson, A., Gill, K., Schelling, K. and Howe, D. (2021), What is needed for Trauma Informed Mental Health Services in Australia? Perspectives of clinicians and managers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

“Being admitted to an acute mental health unit can lead to feelings of shame, and loss of personhood for some consumers. Promoting safety for consumers is a function of acute mental health units.” Dr Natalie Cutler et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/in…

Open Dialogue, need‐adapted mental health care, and implementation fidelity: A discussion paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #EarlyView of paper by Edward Waters, Ben Ong, Kristof Mikes‐Liu, Andrea McCloughen, Alan Rosen, Dr Steve Mayers, Anna Sidis, Lisa Dawson + Niels Buus

We would like to wish all the Mum’s in nursing profession a very happy Mother’s Day! We hope you get spoiled and an extra special shout-out to those who will be working today ensuring our communities are cared for. #MothersDay #ACNTribe

In this national survey over half of mental health nurses who participated reported higher levels of psychological well-being and resilience - Thank you to all colleagues who participated in this study.