Mental Health Nursing Professorial Unit
Our staff
Professor Jane Stein-Parbury, RN, BSN, Med, PhD
Professor of Mental Health Nursing
Email: jane.stein-parbury@uts.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 9113 1780
Fiona Lamont, RN, BSN, MBSc
Practice Development CNC
Email: Fiona.Lamont@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au
Ph: +61 2 9113 2033
Natalie Hughes, BPsyc(Hons)
Administrative Assistant
Email: Natalie.Hughes@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au
Ph: +61 2 9113 2981
Our location
Rooms 101-103
Level 1, James Laws House
St George Hospital
KOGARAH NSW 2217
Fax: +61 2 9113 1054
Our history
The Area Professorial Mental Health Nursing Unit was established at St. George Hospital in February 1997 by Professor Cynthia Stuhlmiller. The unit was initially founded by the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in collaboration with Mental Health Nursing Staff employed within four major central and southern Sydney hospitals - Prince of Wales Hospital, St. George Hospital, St. Vincent's Hospital and Sutherland Hospital.
Following Professor Stuhlmiller's departure in 1999, Professor Edward White accepted the position between 2001 and 2003.
Since 2003, the Unit has been under the direction of Professor Jane Stein-Parbury, a distinguished Professor of Mental Health Nursing who has been with UTS since 1986. Jane's 2003 secondment has recently been extended until 2010. The Unit is now supported by the collaborative effort of UTS and South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service (SESIAHS), with supplementary industry grants for specific research endeavours.
Our mission
The Unit and its staff are committed to improving the experiences of patients and staff operating within the inpatient and outpatient Mental Health communities. This is achieved by the dynamic Unit aims:
- To initiate and promote research into mental health nursing.
- To link evidence to best clinical practice
- To act as a resource to mental health nurses within the area
- To coordinate the Mental Health Nursing Clinical Skills Program for new graduates and nurses wanting to enter the speciality of mental health.
Our current research activities
Assessing acute pain levels and preferred pain management methods in substance users following an inpatient episode.
Emergency communication: Addressing the challenges in health care discourses and practices.
Measuring the efficacy of Dementia Care Mapping in residential ages care: A randomised control trial.
Nurses clinical decision making process in the administration of PRN psychotropic medications: a prospective study
Protected Engagement Time (PET).
Ward Structure as a therapeutic tool project.
Our past research activities
Keeping well in chronic illness (KWICI)
Retrospective chart audit of PRN medication in acute in-patient mental health units in the South East Sydney Area Health Service: A quality improvement project.
Our training, education and development activities
Area Orientation to Mental Health Services
Clinical Supervision
Counselling for Mental Health Nurses
Preceptorship
Transition Support Program (TSP)