Mental Health in Emergency Care - E-Book, 1st Edition

1. Introduction
2. Mental health nursing skills for emergency settings
3. Practice Setting Scenarios
Scenario 1: Emergency Department: Rural/Regional or remote Indigenous Australian presenting with a physical health problem and acute MH situation
Scenario 2: Emergency Department: Metro area. Indigenous Australian presentation
Scenario 3: Emergency Department: Person presenting with acute mental health & substance use
Scenario 4: Emergency Department: Person with personality disorder presenting with deliberate self-harm 
Scenario 5: Emergency Department: 27-year-old woman presents with intentional overdose and trauma
Scenario 6: 40-year-old Turkish woman with panic
Scenario 7: Emergency Department: Person T/F from RACF with delirium/ older adult with UTI, confusion and agitation
Scenario 8: Emergency Department: Person with eating disorder presents to ED faint, medically unstable
Scenario 9: Regional Area Emergency Department: Family member of someone who isn’t being seen quickly enough shouting and being demanding
Scenario 10: Paediatric Emergency Department: Child presenting to paediatric hospital ED with acute behavioural disturbance
Scenario 11: Royal Flying Doctors Service: Acute mental health scenario - depression and suicide
Scenario: 12: PACER team PACER (MHNs in police): Person with acute psychosis being paranoid
Scenario 13: Paramedic/MHN: Person with bipolar (mania) disorder, agitation, irritability, recklessness
Scenario 14: Detention Centre: Person in mental health crisis/self-harm/triage in refugee/asylum seeker detention setting
Scenario 15: Community First Responders after natural disaster: Mental health & nursing in environmental crisis – bush fire
4. Self-care for Emergency nurses – mini scenarios including reflection, emotional intelligence