#MHNR2020 episode 8 - Promoting population mental health

Welcome to the International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference 2020. Between Tuesday 15th September and Friday 25th September we will be running episodes that will feature evening panel discussions supplemented by presentations from each contributor that will be available to watch beforehand. Episode 8 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 23 September 2020] was on the theme of ‘Promoting population mental health' and featured four panellists: Lai Chan is a dual qualified registered nurse with extensive clinical experience of working in acute wards and community settings. Prior to coming into higher education, she was a Team Coordinator of a local community mental health team establishing collaborative working between community, acute and primary care for clients with severe and enduring mental health problems creating joint care pathways and promoting wellbeing. Lai’s current role is the Associate Head in the Nurse Education department embraces both teaching, monitoring quality of programmes and curriculum developer. Specific teaching is on: clinical risk, mental health, cognitive behaviour therapy, clinical supervision, and academic supervisor to postgraduate dissertation. External work includes an OSCE examiner for Liverpool University, an external examiner and reviewer to various higher Education. Lai continues to be involved with practice at different levels, honorary therapist (2010- 2015), commissioned to act as a clinical supervisor for a local hospice (2017 to present date). Steve McCarthy-Grunwald is Senior Lecturer and Pathway Lead for Mental Health Nursing at the University of Cumbria. He has been a registered mental health nurse since 1999, and a qualified healthcare educator since 2014. His focused clinical experiences were within older persons services as a dementia specialist advanced practitioner. His current endeavours include embarking on his PhD Thesis which is looking toward the essence of humour and its impact on our psychological wellbeing. Dr Peggy Mulongo is a lecturer in menta