Supporting mental health nursing workforce recruitment: Considerations for undergraduate nursing curriculum: The challenges created, in part, by the movement towards community-based mental health services across Australia in the late 1990s (1) and the underinvestment in workforce projections, coupled with outdated services, have resulted in increasing demand on an already ailing sector of the healthcare system

Compounding the situation there is a critical shortage of mental health clinicians, especially nurses, to address the growing need for mental healthcare services for consumers, families/caregivers. (3) The lack of [...]