Mental Health Nurses Association of Australia in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Medical and health

Mental Health Nurses Association of Australia

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 417 362 092

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23.01.2022 If you can’t find masks.. just reposting this.. This is easy an mask that is washable! Just add a filter like a sanitary pad liner to the INSIDE of the mask and there you have it.... #bepartofthesolution #stoplookingforreasonstonotdoit #justdoit #wearamask

20.01.2022 We are keen to start ensuring recognition for mental health nurses as a profession. One way to do this, is to support our call to establish a "Support A Mental Health Nurse Day". Please follow this link to sign the petition. http://chng.it/PNPTh9Qrzq

18.01.2022 Highly recommend all colleagues linking to this half hour webinar from the Federal Government relating to MH updates re: COVID. https://publish.viostream.com/app/s-n5n7bz3

16.01.2022 Celebrating all our amazing nurses today for International Nurses day! Probably the one profession that is still fighting to be recognised as an independent identity without a Doctor standing behind them. We are an amazing profession and we keep the health system together!! Nurses you ROCK and we honor you !!... And special thanks to all our mental health nurses who work with us or for us!! You are amazing!

15.01.2022 A day for reflection!! A day which marks our absolute resolve that this will never happen again!!

15.01.2022 What would your older self tell the younger you about mental health?

13.01.2022 Christine Morgan - CEO of Mental Health Commission, today provided a media update with the PM with a focus on mental health. She notes that there has been a significant drop in MBS billed mental health services delivered. Much of this is because people have lost the jobs and cannot afford the gap fee that is attributed to MBS funded telehealth mental health services. However - there has been a large increase in Headspace, Reachout and Head to Health site access. This is be...cause they are FREE. Again - we call on the PM and MP Greg Hunt, please consider mental health nurses who can further support clients. We already have many clients on our books that are not eligible to access medicare because we as nurses cannot use this system. It is inequitable, plain and simple. #mentalhealth #equitableservices #mentalhealthnursescanhelp #greghunt See more

10.01.2022 The #covidsafe app is good news for Australia's health as we fight #coronavirus !!! We need to be part of the solution and continue Australia’s success in combating this virus!! Please download this app! Thank you Greg Hunt MP & Australian Government Department of Health #covid19 #coronavirus

08.01.2022 If you (or you know) a mental health nurse, then we are keen to hear from you!! We need to know what you would like or need from a representative body!! Please follow the link and complete this quick survey! Please pass this on to other mental health nurses to complete !! We need your voice, thoughts and ideas!

08.01.2022 A statement made by our Chief Health Officer at today’s briefing that is important to reaffirm. You will see some people who are not wearing masks and a number of them are legitimately not able to wear masks so please don't vilify individuals... There will be people with medical, behavioural, and psychological reasons not to wear a mask. Be kind and understanding. Everyone has their own set of circumstances we know nothing about.

07.01.2022 Dan Andrews and Greg Hunt MP It is baffling that both the State and Federal Governments all ensure that the main mental health staff that are supporting Victoria’s most vulnerable in and around the towers and responding to Bushfire communities are Mental Healrh Nurses!! We appear to be the critical highly skilled profession for high risk and high need community members, but still can’t be considered a valid profession to be able to bill via Medicare like a psychologist, socia...l worker or mental health OT!! Can someone please explain why?? #thisdoesnotmakesense #mentalhealthnurse #InThisTogether2020 #equalityinaccess #nurseshaverights See more

06.01.2022 What a grate idea.. The Nurse Break radio and podcasts!! Will be watching this closely and keen to get us interviewed on this also!

05.01.2022 Nurses are amazing!!

04.01.2022 To all our Medical Doctors and GP colleagues... please remember to reach out for help! Please keep check on yourself, your colleagues and friends. Reach out for help if you need it. It’s Ok for everyone to not be Ok.. Remembering those we’ve lost. #CrazySocks4Docs

04.01.2022 Mental health nurse survey - what do you want from an Association? We have had 49 responses thus far - THANK YOU. Just a quick reminder if you have not completed this - please follow the link and please send this far and wide to all nurses you know. The aim is to understand what people want from a representative body (even if they are not current engaged with one or do not understand if they need one). Plz Click on the link below... https://forms.gle/LqR4aRN8yDi8X2J17

03.01.2022 We need your voice - your feedback. If you are a mental health nurse - please follow this link to let us know what you need from a representative body

01.01.2022 Mental health toll of coronavirus to create 'second wave' of pandemic, experts warn - ABC News Headline today. Yesterday CEO of National Mental Health Commission Christine Morgan and PM Scott Morrison (ScoMo) spoke about how the Government have given people access the new MBS mental health telehealth services - and yet, service access is dramatically down. This is no surprise...and there is a logical reason. ... Many private clinicians will charge a gap fee on top of the Medicare amount that is billed. So therefore there is an additional fee charged. Many people who need to access these services are those who have lost their jobs or have been stood down. They simply can't afford it!!! In addition - people are reluctant to attend GP surgeries to get the referral for counselling. Overall, we know that attendance at GP surgeries are down too. Primary Health Networks provide targeted mental health services to vulnerable populations, however they have not been funded to provide COVID counselling. Why????? For those people who cannot afford the gap fee, at the very least they could access more sessions via PHNs if there was extended funding. This article also highlights a young woman who has bipolar disorder. Under the current Medicare arrangement, she is eligible to receive up to 10 sessions, non-bulk billed. However in truth, for people with more enduring and chronic mental health conditions, this amount of sessions is totally insufficient. We need to allow extended sessions for more enduring mental health conditions, similar to what is available for Eating Disorders. We also need to allow Mental Health Nurses to deliver these sessions. Working with complex mental illness and long term conditions such as this is our bread and butter. And yet, we are not be permitted to provide these services through mental health Medicare items. Mental Health Nurses have been told that they can only access the Medicare Chronic Disease Items to deliver care that requires a more intensive approach. Just so the public and our government understand this - this equates to 5 sessions annually per person to support someone with a chronic mental health condition... Please tell me how is this equitable? Especially when you consider that someone with a mild condition is able to receive 10 sessions. Please Greg Hunt MP and Scott Morrison (ScoMo) - this does not make sense. We need: 1. An increase in medicare sessions for people with more chronic and enduring mental illnesses 2. The Medicare gap fee to be frozen so people can afford to access these services 3. Mental health nurses to be able to access more sessions for their clients with chronic complex mental illness - (not only 5 sessions) Please make this work - there is a reason people are not reaching out for help.

01.01.2022 To all the amazing Mums out there, whilst we can’t physically visit you, we still send much love and hugs! #togetherAgainSoonTo all the amazing Mums out there, whilst we can’t physically visit you, we still send much love and hugs! #togetherAgainSoon