Eastern Health offers two pathways to experience a Transition to Practice Mental Health Nurse Program. Start your career in Mental Health with us!
Pathway Overview
Our Transition to Practice Program in Mental Health Nursing offers academic study together with clinical experience to support you on your path to postgraduate study in Mental Health. We have formal agreements with Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) with our university partners.
Pure Mental Health Pathway
This pathway is for the novice nurse wanting to develop their career specifically in Mental Health. This program is designed to consolidate and broaden your experience and knowledge of mental health. You will experience two clinical rotations within different areas and age spectrums of mental health.
Blended Mental Health/Nursing Pathway
This pathway is for novice nurses who want to further explore both a mental health rotation and a general rotation. This program is designed to consolidate your general nursing skills, as well as broaden mental health nursing experience and skills.
Occasions of service provided by our mental health community services
307,296
Patients admitted to our mental health inpatient units
3,419
Pure Mental Health Program
Intakes & Rotations
- One intake per year commencing in January
- 12-month program consisting of two 6-month rotations
Clinical Areas
- Adolescent Inpatient Unit
- Acute Adult Inpatient Unit
- Older Persons Inpatient Unit
- Inpatient Drug and Alcohol Stabilisation Unit
- Inpatient Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal Unit
- Residential Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Psychiatric Assessment and Planning Unit
Campuses
- Box Hill Hospital, Box Hill
- Maroondah Hospital, Ringwood East
- Peter James Centre, Burwood
Blended Mental Health/Nursing Pathway
Intakes & Rotations
- One intake per year commencing in March
- 12-month program consisting of two 6-month rotations
- 6-months in a mental health rotation and 6-months in a nursing rotation (medical, surgical or sub-acute)
- Specialty mental health rotations available by expression of interest
- Additional 6-month ICU rotation by expression of interest (extends graduate program to 18-months)
Clinical Areas
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Mental Health rotation
- Acute Adult Inpatient Unit
- Adolescent Inpatient Unit (expression of interest)
- Inpatient Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal Unit (expression of interest)
Nursing rotation
- Cardiac
- District Nursing
- Day Surgery
- Dialysis
- Emergency
- Endoscopy
- Geriatric Evaluation Management
- ICU (by expression of interest)
- Medical
- Neurology/Endocrine
- Oncology
- Paediatrics
- Palliative Care
- Perioperative
- Rehabilitation
- Renal and Vascular
- Residential Aged Care
- Surgical
Campuses
Mental Health rotation
- Box Hill Hospital, Box Hill
- Maroondah Hospital, Ringwood East
Nursing rotation
- Angliss Hospital, Ferntree Gully
- Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, Blackburn
- Box Hill Hospital, Box Hill
- Healesville Hospital, Healesville
- Maroondah Hospital, Ringwood East
- murrenda, Wantirna
- Peter James Centre, Burwood
- Wantirna Health, Wantirna
