Competence in Nursing
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Nurses are able to offer holistic assessment of young people with mental health issues and their families and are able to offer short term or long term treatment either in the clinic setting or in a location suitable to the patients needs.
All nurses currently working in CAMHS in Western Australia should have additional training in issues related to working with children and young people, for example, family therapy training, cognitive behaviour therapy training, training in solution focused approaches to treatment, training in psychodynamic approaches to treatment.
Recommendation 9
Psychiatric nurses will provide a more expanded scope of
practice to increase clinical capacity and will continue to
develop additional skills and competencies to provide a
greater range of evidence based interventions and professional services for service users and their carers/ family members
RPNs will have the appropriate skills,resources and competencies to respond to the needs of service users and carers
including in the following areas:
Therapeutic interventions
* Psychosocial interventions in practice
* Counselling/ psychological therapies
including CBT
* Using interventions to work with people
with dual diagnosis/ or presenting
having engaged in DSH
* Supporting physical health of individuals
* Advocacy
* Ethnic diversity
Assessment, care planning and risk
* Advanced assessment & advanced
clinical decision making skills
* Advanced risk assessment
* Devising risk management plans in
partnership with the service user and
engaging in risk assessment and positive
risk taking
* Collaborative care planning
Working with families
* Enabling carers to work collaboratively
within mental health teams
* Working with carers and families and
using supportive interventions
An advisory/ working group comprising
of a service user, a carer and a member of
each