About

I am a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health and I'm the Programme Leader for the Professional Nurse Advocate programme. I am a Registered Nurse in Mental Health and hold a Lecturer/Practice Educator qualification recorded with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

My clinical experience is predominantly acute mental health care in hospitals and within the community. In higher education, I have worked as a practice educator and taught pre- and post-registration nurses. 

I am also an external examiner for undergraduate & postgraduate programmes at two other HEIs.

Teaching responsibilities

• Professional Nurse Advocate
• Modules within Associate & Enhanced Healthcare Practice Discipline 

Professional interests

• Clinical decision-making
• Crisis intervention
• Psychosocial interventions
• Recovery 
• Practice education  
• Quality in higher education & clinical practice 

Research interests

• Decision making in mental health nursing
• Recovery in mental health 

Membership of professional bodies

• Nursing and Midwifery Council 
• Royal College of Nursing 
• Fellow of HEA

Qualifications

• Diploma in Problem Centred Interventions
• BSc (Hons) Nursing with Registered Nurse
• BSC (Hons) Mental Health Nursing (Thorn)
• PgCert Research 
• MA Learning and Teaching 

Recent conferences

Barley, E. and Gasston-Hales, M. (2018) Evaluation of mental health crisis training for non-mental health professionals, Concurrent Session at 24th International MHNR Conference 2018 Place, Purpose and Politics: Re-imagining Mental Health Care

Experience in industry

• Staff Nurse in Acute Admission Ward
• Staff Nurse in Inpatient Day Hospital 
• Staff Nurse in Community Day Hospital 
• Senior Staff Nurse in Crisis Resolution Team 

Recent publications

Maindonald, R., Attoe, C., Gasston-Hales, M., Memon, P. and Barley, E. (2020), "Mental health crisis training for non-mental health professionals", The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 223-235. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMHTEP-11-2019-006

Lamontagne-Godwin, F., Burgess, C.,  Clement, S., Gasston-Hales., M., Greene, C., Manwande, A., Taylor, D., Walters, P. and Barley, E. (2018) Interventions to increase access to or uptake of physical health screening in people with severe mental illness: a realist review, BMJ Open, 2018; 8:e019412

Gasston-Hales, M. (2011) Understanding the Practice Assessment Document, in Elcock, K and Sharples, K. (eds) A Nurses survival guide to Mentoring, Elsevier  

Gasston-Hales, M. (2011) Mentoring Challenges, in Elcock, K and Sharples, K. (eds) A Nurses survival guide to Mentoring, Elsevier