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Mental health DVD helps nursing practice
A University of the Sunshine Coast team has designed a teaching resource to help Nursing students integrate mental health care into their daily practices.
It tackles nine scenarios common to the Sunshine Coast region, portraying them from the different perspectives of nursing staff and patients and showing different methods and outcomes.
The new, one-hour DVD premiered at USC today.
USC Associate Professor Margaret McAllister said it was created to help promote mental health as a national and local priority.
“One in five Australians will experience at least one mental health problem during their lifetime and the most common, depression, is now a global epidemic,” she said.
“Nurses have the potential to reach millions of Australians so it is critical that we equip them with the sensitivity and competence to care for people’s mental health and wellbeing.”
The resource, funded by the Department of Health and Ageing, will be available nationally to all Schools of Nursing in universities.
It was a collaboration between Sunshine Coast film and educational consultants, with scenarios filmed at USC nursing laboratories and actors sourced locally (including USC students).
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