Biography

Dr Teresa Stone RN, RMN, BA, MHM, PhD is programme convenor for the Bachelor of Nursing at the University of Newcastle. She was awarded the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses Annual Research Award in 2008 and has been involved as co-investigator in a number of research programmes including research funded by Beyond Blue: Healing the healer a peer-based mentorship intervention aimed at increasing nurses awareness of mental health problems in the workplace. ($ 52,188). She has published widely in her field of mental health nursing and teaches into the undergraduate and post graduate mental health programmes. In 2009 she was awarded a NSW Quality Teaching Award.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Newcastle, 2009
• Graduate Certificate Practice of Tertiary Teaching, University of Newcastle, 2009
• Master of Health Management, Charles Sturt University, 2002
• Bachelor of Arts, University of New England, 1996

Research

Research keywords

• aggression
• swearing
• teaching and learning
• verbal aggression

Research expertise

Teri's research interests include verbal aggression, education, clinical supervision, and mental health.

Collaboration

Swearing

Teaching and education

Clinical supervision

Fields of Research

Administrative

Administrative expertise

I have extensive management experience in the mental health field including service manager of the Newcastle Mental Health Service with a responsibility for community and inpatient services. I taught management and coached senior managers and ran organisational development activities as part of my role as Management Development coordinator of Hunter New England Mental Health. Both DOCS and the library services at the University of Newcastle contracted our service to run management programmes.

Teaching

Teaching keywords

• clinical supervision
• health services management
• mental health
• nursing
• suicide prevention

Teaching expertise

I have extensive teaching experience over a period of 20 years in the health context and at University level. ! have been responsible for coordinating and teaching the management development suite of courses for Hunter Health and won a Baxter award for excellence for this programme. I have taught in several areas of mental health including child and adolsecent nursing; I have taught University of Newcastle medical students counselling and sexuality skills and have taught into and written several post graduate courses. I have the Certificate IV workplace Training and Assessment qualification.