These mental health education and training resources have been designed to inform and support ED staff who are involved in mental healthcare. Based on excerpts from people’s personal experiences of mental health care in the ED, each education and training resource has an accompanying summary and key takeaway points that ED clinicians, emergency care nurses, consulting psychiatric registrars and other staff located within emergency departments can use to inform their practice.
Clare Skinner
Dr Clare Skinner is a specialist emergency physician with interests in leadership, advocacy, workplace culture, quality and safety, clinical redesign and health system reform. Her current areas of focus include transformation of the emergency department workforce, improving care of people with mental health symptoms, building positive culture in hospitals, and fostering diversity and inclusion in health services. Clare works as a clinician, manager and educator. She is a frequent contributor to academic journals, mainstream media and medical blogs on topics related to hospital practice and culture. Clare is a regular speaker at emergency medicine and leadership conferences and seminars. She was selected in the Top 50 Public Sector Women NSW in 2018.