Mental Health Conversations
Being a psychiatric nurse is a privilege. Everyone has the right to live a mentally healthy life and feel empowered to achieve whatever they’re capable of. And when someone needs a little help to get to that point, nurses are there to help.
In this series, we will bring you inside the doors of St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, meeting nurses from across the service, and some of the people who have spent time in their care.
Together, we shed light on what it really means to be a mental health nurse today – the rewards and challenges of the role, the deep impact that nurses can make, and where psychiatric nursing is going in the future.
Whether you're a seasoned nurse, a nursing student, or a mental health advocate, Mental Health Conversations brings us together to be informed, inspired and empowered.
Mental Health Conversations is a brand new podcast series brought to you by St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Ireland’s largest independent mental health service.
Mental Health Conversations
Ep2 - Providing care for adults with eating disorders
In St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, we offer a range of specialist services designed to meet the care needs of service users experiencing certain mental health difficulties. One of these specialities is our Eating Disorders Service which provides care for adults who have eating difficulties.
On this episode of Mental Health Conversations, host Aoife Farrington meets Gráinne O’Connor, Clinical Nurse Manager of our Eating Disorder Day Care Programme. Gráinne describes what the programme involves, the nature of the care it provides, and how it feels to watch service users recover.
Aoife also meets two members of the team behind the Eating Disorder Aftercare Programme, dietician Laura Crotty and manager Megan Strickland, to explore how having ongoing connection and peer support makes a real difference to long-term recovery.
Also, a big focus in healthcare currently is the multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary approach. This refers to a group of professionals from various disciplines who meet regularly to discuss the care needs of a service user and come up with an individualised care plan. We’ll hear a first-hand account of how a multidisciplinary team meeting works in the mental healthcare setting.
Mental Health Conversations is a brand new podcast series brought to you by St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Ireland’s largest independent mental health service.