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May 6, 2023

Dr Jakqui Barnfield - Courage & Compassion in Crisis

Dr Jakqui Barnfield - Courage & Compassion in Crisis

Dr Jakqui Barnfield FACMHN, MACN - Director of Clinical Services   As a registered nurse, focusing her career in the area of mental health, Jakqui has held various roles in the tertiary public health sector and is a passionate advocate for...

Dr Jakqui Barnfield FACMHN, MACN - Director of Clinical Services  


As a registered nurse, focusing her career in the area of mental health, Jakqui has held various roles in the tertiary public health sector and is a passionate advocate for mental health and suicide
prevention. She is committed to holistic care, ensuring services strive to meet the needs of
consumers, their families and our community.


With over ten years’ experience as a Director of Nursing and Operations, she specialises in
innovation, strategy implementation and supervision with a strong focus on quality and safety. She is an avid reader of texts that blend scholarship and praxis with content and context that ranges from leadership to clinical practice to research and innovation. Her PhD study focused on experiences of both nurses and consumers when faced with caring for or being the recipient of hospital admission following a suicide attempt. Jakqui has been involved in the education and curricula content development of undergraduate and postgraduate nurses and delivered workplace and community education and training.


As the Director of Clinical Services at On the Line Australia, Jakqui is responsible for the clinical
delivery of national mental health helplines, Mensline Australia and Suicide Call Back Service, as well as counselling services for state-based programs and Primary Health Networks in Victoria, NSW and SA. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses and a Member of the Australian College of Nursing.

 

Resources

Suicide Call Back Service - Call 1300 659 467

Suicide Call Back Service - https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/ 

Suicide Call Back Service FB - https://www.facebook.com/suicidecallbackservice

Suicide Call Back Service Twitter - https://twitter.com/SuicideCallBack

Safety Plan - https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/feeling-suicidal/making-a-safety-plan/

 

RUOK - Australia  - https://www.ruok.org.au/findhelp

Lifeline Australia - https://www.lifeline.org.au/

Brene Brown International Resouces Page - https://brenebrown.com/international-crisis-resources/

Mentioned in the Conversation

Making Space for You - Ralph De La Rosa - https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/cb7ca6e9-5515-4037-9e8d-12d394520589/11928713-ralph-de-la-rosa-making-space-for-you.mp3

The Heart of Compassion - https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/cb7ca6e9-5515-4037-9e8d-12d394520589/9313016-ralph-de-la-rosa-the-heart-of-compassion.mp3

 

The Third Spacehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2rdMjnhAgM

The Forever Decision Dr Paul Quinetthttps://qprinstitute.com/pdfs/Forever_Decision.pdf