STAFF DEVELOPMENT

Melodie Hull offers a wide variety of education and training for the health profession, social services and criminal justice.
With over 16 years of experience teaching adults and 20 years of working within the mental health field, she brings a vast array of experiences, techniques and knowledge to her classes. Each course or session can be used by Nurses and others to meet their annual registration requirement for Continuing Competency.

Melodie will design training sessions or programs to meet your needs. She is a fountain of creative, innovative ideas. Her lively and insightful manner will keep your students and employees asking for more! In-service education can run from 1 - 3 hours to suit your busy work schedules. She also offers day courses and series of lectures. Here are just some of the sessions Melodie has offered to employers.

• Teaching Nurses to Teach
• Curriculum Development in Health Care
• Curriculum Development in English for Specific Purposes
• Forensic Psychiatric Nursing
• De-escalating Anger and Violence
  
• Professional versus Social Relationships
  
• Understanding Schizophrenia
  
• Anger Management
  
• Review of Signs & Symptoms of Common Mental Illnesses
  
• Documentation and Charting
  
• Understanding Depression
  
• Defining Abuse and Exploitation of Clients
  
• Improving Professional Communication Skills
  
• Professional Boundaries
  
• Caring for the Cognitively Impaired (ie: Alzheimer's)
  
• Dealing with Anger and Aggression
  
• Sexual Identity and its relevance for the Person
  
• Motivating the Seemingly Unmotivated
  in Residential Care
  
• Working with the Client in the Community who has a Brain Injury
  
• Psychiatric Medications: a general Overview of their purpose and some side effects
  
• Communicating with Colleagues: developing trust and respect mental health client
  
• Exploring Self-Identity with the long-term care
  
• Principles of Behaviour Modification and
  
• Step-Programming