Nursing research snapshot
Dr Natasha Sands - Nursing - The University of Melbourne
nsands@unimelb.edu.au
My areas of research expertise
- Mental health triage
- Duty / triage
- Risk / psychiatric assessment
- Telephone triage
- Telehealth
- Crisis assessment
My favoured methodology / methodologies
Mixed methods including:
- Survey
- Focus groups
- Interviews
- Systematic review
Areas that I am currently researching
- Carer perspectives of mental health triage
- Seclusion
- Personality disorder and crisis assessment
Areas of research that are of emerging interest to me
- Use of triage scales in mental health assessment
- Consumer perspectives on mental health triage
- The uptake of the ED mental health triage tool by emergency department staff
I am interested in collaborating with U21 colleagues in the following areas of research
- Consumer perspectives on mental health triage
- Emergency psychiatry
- Crisis assessment
The area in which I wish to undertake a visiting scholarship
- Telephone only mental health triage / assessment - USA and UK telehealth systems
Resources/facilities currently available to me that I would like to highlight
- ARC linkage could be considered for consumer perspective of mental health triage
Additional comment
- I would welcome collaboration
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