Mental Health Emergencies

• 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 (MHE) 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.

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.

The course can be mod­i­fied accord­ing to needs of the health ser­vice and be deliv­ered on an organ­i­sa­tion­al basis.

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

The MHE course uses a blend­ed learn­ing approach:

• Online pre-course mod­ules that must be com­plet­ed pri­or to the workshop
• Atten­dance at a one day face to face workshop

Our alter­na­tive MHE pro­gram for 100% online atten­dance is also available.

For a pri­vate face to face course, please sub­mit an enquiry here for fur­ther information.

• 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

• A CRANAplus Men­tal Health Emer­gen­cies course certificate

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.

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.

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