BSc Mental Health Nursing
About this course
BSc in Nursing (Mental Health). Core topics include Clinical Skills, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Ethics & Professional Practice. The course uses block delivery, with each module taught over five weeks followed by an assessment week. Six supervised practice placements are integrated across the three years. Graduates can apply for professional registration as a mental health nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery Council.
Modules
- Becoming a Professional Practitioner – 20 credits
- Evidence: Your Profession in a Global Context – 20 credits
- Nursing Assessment and Care Delivery – 20 credits
- Understanding Influences on Health and Care – 20 credits
- Placement 1: Introduction to Nursing Care – 20 credits
- Placement 2: Delivering Nursing Care – 20 credits
- Therapeutic Interventions in Mental Health Nursing – 20 credits
- Complex Decision-Making with the Mental Health Nursing Environments – 20 credits
- Exploring Knowledge Through Curiosity – 20 credits
- Enhanced Approaches in Delivering Holistic Care – 20 credits
- Placement 3: Delivering Enhanced Nursing Care – 20 credits
- Placement 4: Delivering Complex Holistic Nursing Care – 20 credits
- Complex Care Coordination in Mental Health Nursing – 20 credits
- Leading for the Future as a Health and Care Professional – 20 credits
- The Evidence-based Practitioner: Professional Project – 20 credits
- Preparing for your Career in Nursing – 20 credits
- Placement 5: Coordinating Nursing Care – 20 credits
- Placement 6: Practising Autonomously – 20 credits