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Mental Health Emergencies - Online

The remote and isolated health workforce frequently identify that they feel insufficiently trained and skilled to manage people presenting with acute mental health issues, substance use, suicidal behaviours and episodes of acute distress. This course aims to build participant knowledge, skills and confidence in responding to such presentations.

About this course

Are you con­fi­dent of your abil­i­ty to man­age men­tal health emergencies?

Would you like to devel­op your skills in respond­ing to acute men­tal ill­ness and severe distress?

Are you required to assist clients who have used sub­stances or alcohol?

The Men­tal Health Emer­gen­cies Online (MHE Online) course is designed to enable remote health staff to devel­op the knowl­edge and skills nec­es­sary to respond with con­fi­dence when encoun­ter­ing clients pre­sent­ing with acute men­tal health issues, sub­stance use, sui­ci­dal behav­iour or episodes of acute distress.

MHE online deliv­ers the same con­tent from our tra­di­tion­al face-to-face course but allows you to engage from the com­fort of home or work, immerse your­self in the con­tent, engage with oth­er prac­ti­tion­ers and ask ques­tions over an 8 week period.

Who is this course for?

The MHE course is designed to meet the learn­ing needs of the remote and iso­lat­ed health work­force (Nurs­es, Mid­wives, Abo­rig­i­nal & Tor­res Strait Islander Health Workers/​Practitioners, Para­medics and Med­ical Offi­cers) who assess and man­age clients with men­tal health needs, sub­stance use or episodes of acute distress.

If you have any queries about the course or its rel­e­vance to your prac­tice, sub­mit an enquiry here.

Course deliv­ery

The MHE online course is deliv­ered 100% online over a peri­od of 8 weeks and requires approx­i­mate­ly two hours of par­tic­i­pa­tion a week. It deliv­ers the same con­tent as our tra­di­tion­al cours­es but using a com­bi­na­tion of:

  • Self-direc­t­ed online learn­ing and activities
  • Online dis­cus­sion boards
  • 3 live online tutorials

Tuto­r­i­al times are shown in Aus­tralian East­ern Stan­dard Time and will need to be con­vert­ed to local time by inter­state attendees.

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of this course, clin­i­cians will have covered:
  • Effec­tive communication
  • Men­tal health assessment
  • Men­tal health emer­gen­cies – acute dis­tress and acute men­tal illness
  • Man­ag­ing acute men­tal dis­tur­bance – cur­rent best prac­tice in the remote & iso­lat­ed health context
  • Man­ag­ing acute intox­i­ca­tion and with­draw­al – cur­rent best prac­tice in the remote & iso­lat­ed health context
  • Self-harm and suicide
On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion par­tic­i­pants will be awarded:
  • A CRANAplus Men­tal Health Emer­gen­cies course certificate
Cater­ing information

Giv­en the remote loca­tion of many of our cours­es, we are some­times restrict­ed to Veg­e­tar­i­an and Gluten Free dietary options. While we always sup­ply fresh food and fruit, par­tic­u­lar foods may not be eas­i­ly accessed in remote areas. Should you have quite spe­cif­ic restric­tions we encour­age you to bring some basics and then pick and choose from the fresh food offered on the day. You should also inform us of any aller­gies you may have so we can advise the cater­er and be aware of the situation.

Addi­tion­al FAQs

View the answers to oth­er fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions about CRANAplus courses.

Finan­cial sup­port to attend

CRANAplus Mem­bers receive a dis­count on face-to-face course reg­is­tra­tion and are eli­gi­ble to apply for var­i­ous CRANAplus pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment grants to meet the costs asso­ci­at­ed with course atten­dance. You can also find a list of grants and schol­ar­ships offered by exter­nal providers, such as the Health Work­force Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram, on our Path­way Incen­tives page.