Know your entitlements
Ask Maddy: I am a mental health nurse; which EBA applies to me?
Decades ago, prior to national registration in Australia, there used to be separate ‘divisions’ for mental health nurses on the Victorian nursing register. A registered nurse with a mental health specific qualification was called a Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN) and an enrolled nurse with mental health specific qualification was called a Psychiatric Enrolled Nurse (PEN). These distinctions no longer exist in the registration scheme.