u/Deoraby

I'm a nurse and recently started in CAMHS triage. Patients/families can self-refer but we still get a lot through from GPs.

We got one referral in a few weeks ago, where the content of the referral had been copy+pasted from the session notes into the referral form. There were a lot of valid concerns and both young person and mum seemed to have been very distressed in the appt. Halfway down the referral form, the notes said '10 minutes for a mental health crisis', and I think that was what made me realise how much you actually have to try and manage in a single appointment slot (plus the safety netting, documentation, and referral(s)).

I just wanted to express appreciation for what you're managing to do.

I'm a mental health nurse in an area with no students, and I really miss the education / sharing information aspects of supporting students. I also know when I was doing my degree, we barely covered a lot of very relevant clinical concepts, like assessing psychosis, interventions for difficulties associated with autism, psychopharmacology, etc.

I've been considering making and delivering some webinars on these types of subjects for student mental health nurses (and students in other fields, and NQNs - whoever's interested), and I wanted to get an idea of whether people would be interested, essentially. (Everything would be free obviously! I hate when important information gets locked behind a paywall.)

Would anyone be interested? Any specific subjects or topics (even if it's very specific, or very vague - you don't know what you don't know!). In my job, I assess / work with a large volume of different patients, so I'm lucky to have quite a wide range of experience (and any actual training I deliver would be evidence-based with sources ofc). Let me know!

Ayo

I'm a mental health nurse irl and so am trained with IM and subcut injections, including proper techniques, adapting for people who have difficulty with the normal techniques, safety, related healthcare things.

Just wanted to offer, if anyone has questions about injection technique, how to adapt things, using the right equipment, disposing of sharps safely, etc, I may be able to answer! This is ongoing, even if this post gets old, and you can message me instead of commenting if you're more comfortable with that.

I trained and am practicing in ~~TERF island~~ the UK so if it's about what resources are available, I can help more if you're UK based, but things like injection and safe disposal are the same most places.

Hi! I'm a newly qualified mental health nurse working in community CAMHS. In the Trust where I trained, every type of community mental health team I did placement in had at least a quarter to a third OTs in Care Coordinator roles (CAMHS, CMHT, Early Intervention in Psychosis, Older Adult, etc), but in this trust it seems much rarer - there are no OTs in my team at all, and I don't believe there are any in the team we work with, either.

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Since a lot of the issues that the young people coming to our team are dealing with tend to be things like struggling to attend / engage with school, struggling to make or keep friends or social connections, etc, I feel weird not having OT input in the team!

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I was wondering if anyone knows of any short courses, or particular models or frameworks I could try to get training in, which would help with incorporating more of an OT approach in my role?

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I've done a lot of work around disability (mainly supporting students) and am quite familiar with working with people to identify reasonable adjustments that might work for them, and an OT I used to work with taught me about the PEO model which has been very helpful for reasonable adjustments / universal design, but for a lot of the young people I work with now, their difficulties often wouldn't meet the criteria for disability so I don't want to apply the same approach when it might not be what they need.

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Any sort of advice or information would be much appreciated!