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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Privileged to share a learning space with @drjohnabaker.bsky.social reflecting on the harm embedded in mental health nursing and how we can kinder and safer #ACMHN2035

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Mental health nursing as a discipline is disappearing in Australia resulting in systemic harm to people with mental illness and people experiencing a mental health crisis. Dear colleagues in Canada and the UK please resist. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Dr Tim Wand, mental health nurse practitioner offers a summary of the potential harm and questionable benefits of psychotropic drugs. This critical information needs to be shared with people in genuine collaboratve and person-centred mental health nursing care (Open Source). doi.org/10.1080/0161...

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Examining the Long-Term Impacts of Psychotropic Drugs and Considerations for People Discontinuing Treatment

Psychotropic drugs dominate the mental healthcare landscape. This is despite contention over their proposed mechanism of action, concerns for their adverse effects, and questionable effectiveness, ...

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

More deeply affirming, critically relevant and informed reflections by @bondc007.bsky.social @debrae.bsky.social and Kim Usher. Such inspirational mental health nursing leaders! (open source of course) doi.org/10.1111/inm....

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The Centrality of Compassion in Mental Health Nursing

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

In a sample of women presenting to EDs with issues of intimate partner violence and receiving a triage referral to mentlal health, 60% were brought by ambulance. 80% of these were coerced via public health legislation. This may pathologise trauma responses (Open Source) doi.org/10.1111/inm....

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Exploring Emergency Healthcare for Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence With Comorbid Psychological Distress

Intimate partner violence (IPV) may cause significant mental and physical health deterioration. This gendered violence often results in victims seeking support from emergency healthcare providers. Ye....

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Compassion is the bedrock of effective mental health care, it is a core skill, its a gift that keeps giving, and its a powerful healing force for the people we work with and for mental heallth nurses. (Free access) doi.org/10.1111/inm....

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The Centrality of Compassion in Mental Health Nursing

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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

“It felt like this invisible person was following me. It became really frightening and I got really unwell. I didn't feel safe... not knowing who was watching me or when” We spoke to BBC about why we are calling for an end to Oxevision, CCTV and other systems on wards www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Call for Oxevision cameras to be banned in mental health patients' bedrooms

Former mental health patients are worried camera surveillance is being used without explicit consent.

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Real disappointment to discover that bullying by 'health professionals' exists in academia as well as clinical settings. I have observed even senior and highly regarded nursing academics being bullied and harmed by academic leaders enabled and emboldened by HR departments. youtu.be/bmR9lTCuFyc?...

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Sickness in Health

YouTube video by Brenda Happell

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Important research seeking to understand the increased coercion in Qld mental health services. I am familiar with these themes from my own practice, and I believe they hold international relevance (Open Access) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Reasons behind the rise in involuntary psychiatric treatment under mental health act 2016, Queensland, Australia – Clinician perspectives

Despite legislative reform to promote less restrictive treatment options, the rates of involuntary psychiatric treatment in Queensland, Australia cont…

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Open source scoping review by Australian MHN heroes and leaders on ensuring undergraduate mental health nursing placements are successful. doi.org/10.1080/0161... Unfortunately, many Australian universities are now completely removing mental health nursing from the undergraduate curricula

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A Scoping Review of Australian New Graduate Nurse Preparation to Work in Mental Health Settings

Objectives: The review explores current evidence on Australian pre-registration nurse education in preparing graduates to work in mental health settings, from the perspectives of the graduates. Des...

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Pre-election deal between Police Union and Liberal National Party Qld prior to 2012 election required Director Mental Health to lock all public MH units. Blanket policy was rescinded July 2024 but nurses finding it hard to adapt. Reflecting on this wise research might assist doi.org/10.1111/nup....

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On Being Open in Closed Places: Vulnerability and Violence in Inpatient Psychiatric Settings

High levels of violence and conflict occur in inpatient psychiatric settings, causing a range of psychological and physical harms to both patients and staff. Drawing on critiques of vulnerability fro....

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is an important 'primer' on restrictive and coercive practices in #MentalHealthServices here in Queensland with very considered and comprehensive policy recommendations, produced by our peak body for people with #LivedExperience. mhlepq.org.au/wp-content/u...

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

"It is vital that psychiatrists and other mental health professionals find ways to boost accurate knowledge about mental illness without simultaneously inflating it" A rich, deeply thoughtful article from two of the best thinkers on this topic (Haslam & Tse) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39402888/

Public awareness of mental illness: Mental health literacy or concept creep?
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Rising awareness of mental illness has increased the public's mental health literacy, with positive implications for help-seeking and destigmatization. We argue that it has also enlarged the public's concept of mental illness. People have become better at recognizing the presence of mental illness but may have become worse at recognizing its absence. This conceptual expansion fosters unwarranted self-diagnosis, the pathologization of ordinary distress, and unnecessary treatment. It is incumbent on mental health professionals to promote accurate knowledge of mental illness and push back against overly expansive concepts of it.

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Mental health nurses along with other mental health professionals are still vulnerable to holding on to stigmatising beliefs and biases regarding mental illness. Open source research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #MentalHealthNursing #QualitativeResearch #GroundedTheory

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Australian mental health nurses celebrating our discipline at #ACMHN2024 acmhn.org/Web/Web/Even...

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48th International Mental Health Nursing Conference

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Excited to be in Perth with 480 mental health nurses #ACMHN2024

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Steve Haines @stevehainescmhn.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Inspired by Kim Usher mental health nursing practitioner, researcher at the #ACMHN2024 conference

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