Kirsty Baker

Mrs Kirsty Baker

Lecturer, Nursing

School of Nursing and Midwifery

College of Health

Kirsty Baker commenced teaching mental health within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at UniSA in 2012. She teaches in the Bachelor of Nursing program and is the Course Coordinator in the Postgraduate mental health courses. She has commenced her research in the field of first episode psychosis and the therapeutic relationship focusing on the consumers lived experience and how mental health nurses can better understand and support their needs.
Kirsty has been a Mental Health Nurse since 2004 working in the adult crisis mental health teams, specifically the Royal Adelaide Hospital Emergency Department and Eastern ACIS. She continues to work in the ED and community MH teams providing emergency mental health assessment and therapeutic nursing care to consumers and their families in times of crisis and throughout recovery. 

Current member of the Mental Health and Substance Use Research Group

Year Citation
2022 Loughhead, M., Rhodes, K., Baker, K., & Macedo, D. (2022). Assessment practices and processes in mental health. In N. Procter (Ed.), Source details - Title: Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach (3rd ed. ed., pp. 101-126). UK: Cambridge University Press.
2022 Procter, N., Baker, K., Ferguson, M., Hodge, L., Macedo, D., & Loughhead, M. (2022). Mental illness and narratives of experience. In N. Procter (Ed.), Source details - Title: Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach (3rd ed. ed., pp. 83-100). UK: Cambridge University Press.
2022 Procter, N., Baker, A., Baker, K., Hodge, L., Macedo, D., & Ferguson, M. (2022). Introduction to mental health and mental illness: human connectedness and the collaborative consumer narrative. In N. Procter (Ed.), Source details - Title: Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach (3rd ed. ed., pp. 1-25). UK: Cambridge University Press.
2017 Procter, N., Baker, A., Baker, K., Hodge, L., & Ferguson, M. (2017). Introduction to mental health and mental illness: human connectedness and the collaborative consumer narrative. In N. Procter (Ed.), Source details - Title: Mental health: a person-centred approach (2 ed., pp. 1-28). UK: Cambridge University Press.
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2016 Procter, N., Baker, A., Ferguson, M., & Baker, K. (2016). Mental health within society and societies. In M. Steen, & M. Thomas (Eds.), Source details - Title: Mental health across the lifespan: a handbook (pp. 21-45). UK: Routledge.
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2013 Procter, N., Baker, A., Grocke, K., & Ferguson, M. (2013). Introduction to mental health and mental illness: human connectedness and the collaborative consumer narrative. In N. Procter (Ed.), Source details - Title: Mental health: a person-centred approach (pp. 1-24). Port Melbourne, Victoria: Cambridge University Press.
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Courses I teach

  • NURS 1072 Foundations of Nursing Practice (2024)
  • NURS 2041 Mental Health Nursing (2024)
  • NURS 5071 Perspectives in Mental Health Practice (2024)
  • NURS 5159 Theoretical Approaches to Mental Health Practice (2024)

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