#MHNR2020 episode 04 - Children and young people

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. You can see all the #MHNR2020 presentation on Facebook via: https://www.facebook.com/watch/UniteMHNA/1020046081766825/ or YouTube via: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbbbGYObfkpQTWUFz_UkMl-ivCtoV-8s Episode 4 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 16 September 2020] was on the theme of 'Children and young people' and featured four panellists: Rachel Bullock is a trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner with 18 years’ experience of working across both adult and children’s mental health services. Rachel’s background is formed of criminal justice settings, drug and alcohol services both inpatient, and community, acute care and more latterly CAMHS. Rachel is a Florence Nightingale Scholar. Rachel has been instrumental in the transformation of neurodevelopmental pathways, in particularly, ADHD assessment and management. As a result, Rachel (and colleagues) has been awarded the CYP Positive Practice 2019 national award for Partnership/ Co-Production for her alignment with primary care. Rachel (and colleagues) has also been shortlisted for 2 Nursing Times Awards 2019 for nursing in Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Services categories. Rachel is the co-founding member of the @CAMHSNetwork and is also co-lead for the PPiMH CYPMH Specialist Interest Group. Ann Cox is the CAMHS consultant nurse and clinical lead at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare. Working in CAMHS for the past 17 years, Ann has developed expertise in working with younger age children and has a keen interest for and is researching how to involve children aged 8-12 years in decision making and consent processes in outpatient CAMHS in her Doctoral award due to be finished this year. Ann is a Florence Nightingale Scholar and an RCN Foundation bursa