A Fellow with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses. Currently teaching undergraduate nursing students whilst completing PhD research into the ethical challenges for community mental health nurses when responding coercively to people experiencing suicidality.
My mental health nursing career spans millennia. Within the last 20 years I have held senior roles in community mental health nursing including team leader for rural mental health service, team leader for therapeutic services for children in out-of-home care, and clinical nurse consultant providing assessment and case management services for people recovering from serious mental illness.
I have taught clinical supervision for supervisees and supervisors with the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Nursing and have undertaken project work with the Office of the Chief Nursing Officer (Qld) to increase the opportunities and capacity for mental health nurses to engage in clinical supervision.
As an experienced clinical supervisor my work is underpinned by trauma-informed, recovery-oriented humanistic principles and informed by the supervision alliance model of Proctor (2001)