Kylie Straub

Kylie is a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse and Nurse Practitioner, she has lived and worked most of her life in rural and remote communities in the Northern Territory and Queensland. She is a strong advocate for Mental health nurses to be recognised and utilised to their full scope of practice within the health care system. Kylie has worked in the government and non-government sector both nationally and internationally. She has completed Masters degrees in Primary Health care, Mental health and a Masters of Nursing- Nurse Practitioner.

Kylie has worked as a Remote Area Nurse, Mental Health Nurse and has gained Nurse Practitioner meta specialities in the area of primary health and mental health. She has developed models of care in adolescent in outpatient mental health, dementia and delirium and asylum seeker/ refugee health.