Mental Health
Stuck in fight-or-flight mode? 5 ways to complete the &...
April 18, 2024
Can you remember a time when you felt stressed leading up to a big life event and then afterwards felt like a weight had been lifted? This process – the ramping up of the stress response and then feeling this settle back down – shows completion of the “stress cycle”. Some stress in daily life…
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Heterosexual HIV Diagnoses Have Increased In NSW And It...
June 1, 2018
It’s HIV Testing week and new data from NSW has shown an increase in the number of…
Mental Health
Lonely millennials twice as vulnerable to depression
May 29, 2018
Lonely young adults have twice the chance of experiencing depression or anxiety than the general…
Mental Health
Unsafe ratios force bed closures in Hornsby mental heal...
May 28, 2018
Consistent understaffing and poor skill mix issues at the Hornsby Ku-Ring-Gai Hospital Mental Health Intensive…
Mental Health
Want To Become A Mental Health Nurse? Here’s How
April 4, 2018
“I had never considered a career in mental health nursing until I completed my mental…
Mental Health
Seclusion and restraint forecast to decline
March 5, 2018
NSW government vows to implement findings of mental health care review. The state government expects…
Mental Health
Review dodges vital issues
March 5, 2018
Seclusion and restraint report is vague on workforce improvements. The review of seclusion and restraint…
Mental Health
Mental health ‘scary’ for new nurses
January 31, 2018
Understaffed mental health units are deterring junior nurses from choosing a career in mental health…
Mental Health
Staff exposed to high risk
January 31, 2018
Surveys reveal extent of understaffing in mental health facilities. Asurvey of NSWNMA members employed in…
Mental Health
Nolan House battles to keep CCTV
January 31, 2018
Cameras are essential in a high-risk mental health unit, nurses say. Nurses are resisting an…