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Dr Marc Broadbent, Lecturer

Dr Marc BroadbentGraduate Research & Honours Coordinator

School of Nursing & Midwifery
RN, PhD, Cert Critical Care, Grad Cert Adult ED & Training, Grad Dip Adult ED & Training, MEd, MACMHN, FCN

Mental Health Research Interests:

  • Care of clients with a mental illness in Emergency Departments
  • Emergency mental health triage
  • Client’s experience of emergency care
  • Models of mental health service delivery in Emergency Departments

Dr Marc Broadbent has a clinical background in critical care and emergency nursing and his main area of expertise is in trauma and emergency nursing with a specialised knowledge of emergency triage. Marc has worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Educator and Nurse Manager in emergency departments within Australia and overseas.

Having spent many years observing emergency departments and mental health services failing clients with mental illness, an opportunity arose in 2000 for Marc to lead a team to improve the emergency triage of, and mental health service response to, clients with a mental illness at Barwon Health in Victoria. This led to a professional interest in the area.

Marc has published and presented both nationally and internationally in the area of emergency mental health triage and hasw completed a PhD examining the factors that affect the relationship between emergency departments and mental health triage nurses. His work has been cited as best-available evidence for the triage of clients with mental illness in the National Emergency Triage Training Kit.

Marc is a member of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses, a Fellow of the College of Nursing and Associate Editor - Mental Health for the Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal.