Highly trained Psychiatric Staff Nurse offering well-developed interpersonal, acute care treatment and relationship building skills. Promoting pleasant personality and skills helping patients stay calm and communicative. Resourceful clinician committed to providing excellent care to patients of all ages. Expertise in performing admission assessments and discharges and participating in crisis interventions. Kind and caring professional with 26 years of experience monitoring treatment of patients diagnosed with disabilities, illnesses and distress in the remote towns and communities of the Kimberley, WA
Assessment of persons seeking help with alcohol and other drug issues.
Referral to appropriate agencies, ie; detoxification centres, residential rehabilitation programs and community based counselling services
Administering community based methadone program
Administering needle exchange program
Provision of care using a psycho-dynamic model to adult survivors of childhood abuse.
Individual therapy
Group therapy
Liaising with Consultant Psychiatrist
Weekly supervision from an accredited psychoanalyst