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MHE - Mental Health Emergencies

Costs
Member: $300
Non Member: $350

Mental Health Emergencies video

Upcoming Course with Vacancies

About this Course

  • Are you confident of your ability to manage mental health emergencies?
  • Would you like to develop your skills in responding to acute mental illness and severe distress?
  • Are you required to deal with substance-affected persons in your workplace?

The Managing Mental Health Emergencies (MHE) course is designed to enable remote health staff to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to respond with confidence when encountering acute mental health issues, substance affected patients and episodes of acute distress as a result of traumatic events such as attempted/completed suicide.

Who is this course for?

The MHE course is designed to meet the learning needs of the remote and isolated health workforce (Nurses, Midwives, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Workers/Practitioners, Paramedics and Medical Officers) who encounter acute mental health issues, substance affected patients and episodes of acute distress resulting from attempted/completed suicide and other traumatic events that occur in the remote and isolated setting.

The course can be modified according to needs of the health service and be delivered on an organisational basis.

Course Deliv­ery

The Men­tal Health Emer­gen­cies (MHE) Course 2 components: 

  • Online pre-course theory 
  • Atten­dance at a one day face to face course.

For a pri­vate face to face course, please sub­mit an enquiry here for fur­ther information.

Grad­u­ates of this course will have covered:

  • Effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion in men­tal health 
  • Men­tal health assessment
  • Men­tal health emer­gen­cies — acute dis­tress and acute men­tal illness
  • Man­ag­ing acute men­tal dis­tur­bance – cur­rent best prac­tice in the remote & iso­lat­ed health context
  • Man­ag­ing acute intox­i­ca­tion and with­draw­al – cur­rent best prac­tice in the remote & iso­lat­ed health context
  • Self-harm and suicide
  • Debrief­ing & clin­i­cian well­be­ing (option­al)

If you have any queries about the course or its rel­e­vance to your prac­tice, sub­mit an enquiry here.

Pub­li­ca­tions:

Sup­port­ing Gen­er­al­ist Health Prac­ti­tion­ers in the Bush to Help Meet the Men­tal Health Needs of Their Communities

Aman­da North, 2018, Aus­tralian Col­lege of Men­tal Health Nurs­es News Spring Edi­tion, Page 13