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The diversity of mental health nursing is enormous. Q&A with Monica Taylor

The Nurse Break

Meet Monica Taylor – Vice President of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN). The diversity of mental health nursing is enormous. Monica Taylor has been a mental health nurse for 30 years and was one of the first community-based MHNs in the Western Australian rural sector. Write for Us.

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How To Become a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

A psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner is a specialized healthcare role nurse practitioners can fulfill with advanced training and experience. If you want to know how to become a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner, learn more about the nuances and requirements of this role.

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Preventing nurse suicide: Nursing school and beyond

American Nurse

Strategies and support to improve mental health outcomes Suicide and mental illness have long been stigmatized, and although public awareness has grown recently, partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals hesitate to acknowledge their own mental health struggles or seek help.

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Healthcare’s role in reducing gun violence

American Nurse

A 2022 study by Titus and colleagues revealed that, although most providers feel a responsibility to screen for proper storage of firearms in the home, only 3% to 13% of them actually have these discussions. We provide life-saving vaccines against polio, hepatitis, and measles.

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A warming planet and human health

American Nurse

A warmer planet increases risks related to physical and mental health. Planetary warming combined with societal inequity result in disastrous impacts of wildfires, extreme temperatures, and severe storms on human health and well-being. Discuss the language of urgency developed by climate experts.

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Climate action

American Nurse

Nurses—vital to a healthy environment and patients In the summer of 2022, my family and I happily vacationed in Alaska—a trip of a lifetime. With our concern for how social and environmental factors affect our patients’ overall health and functioning, nurses have so much to contribute to make their lives better, even in a degraded ecosystem.

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Collaboration: The key to patient care success

American Nurse

As soon as the patient can safely ambulate, functional independence is promoted. Despite the exceedingly high turnover rate of ICU nurses nationwide, Raritan Bay Medical Center’s ICU had an RN turnover rate of 3% in the third quarter of 2022. In the last quarter of 2022, and year to date in 2023, we have a 0% nurse turnover rate.