Mental Health Nursing BSc (Hons)

This module will introduce you to the underlying principles of healthcare ethics, legislation and social policy. This will include the protection of vulnerable people across the lifespan including those with complex needs. You should be equipped to recognise ethical challenges relating to people's choices and decision-making about their health and wellbeing across care settings. Ability to act within the law to help service users, families and carers to manage needs will be explored.

Compulsory

This module provides you with opportunities in the workplace to build on your foundations of practice and enable you to work more independently with less direct supervision in an increasingly competent and confident manner to deliver quality holistic person- and family-centred care. It will provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate, through your practice, your potential to become an autonomous practitioner.

Compulsory

This module aims to develop your ability to perform comprehensive and systematic assessments, interpret data and plan care within mental health settings across the lifespan. You will have the opportunity to develop mental health assessment skills, make clinical judgments, improve decision-making and plan individualised, person and family-centred care.

Compulsory

This module aims to explore the application of therapeutic interventions used in the field of mental health nursing care across the lifespan. The focus is on professionally appropriate knowledge, skills and understanding of related psychological, physical, pharmacological and recovery interventions. Each of which will be drawn from current policy documents and key drivers that aim to enhance mental health service provision for people with mental health problems.

Compulsory

This module provides you with additional opportunities to display your ability to work more independently, with less direct supervision, in a safe and increasingly confident manner to deliver quality holistic person- and family-centred care. It will provide you with the opportunity to extend and apply your knowledge and skills towards becoming an autonomous practitioner⁵.

Compulsory

This module demonstrates how the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards Framework for Nursing and Midwifery Education (particularly Part 2- Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment) (NMC, 2018) are applied in practice⁵.

This module will enable you to understand the role of the practice supervisor (in association with the practice assessor and academic assessor) through reflective practice and the novice to expert model. This module aims to develop your inter-professional learning and working through supporting and supervising fellow students of the multidisciplinary team.

Compulsory

This module provides you with the opportunity to build further on skills and knowledge related to research and evidence-informed practice acquired in year one. It enables you to develop specific nursing-focused questions to underpin evidence-informed decision-making and practice. You will develop a research proposal to underpin year three work. The processes of literature review and research production, including ethical requirements will be analysed, taking into account global and cultural perspectives.

Compulsory

This module aims to support the development of the leadership behaviours and management skills required to function effectively as a newly qualified registered healthcare professional working within the multi-professional team in the delivery of high-quality care.

You will critically examine clinical leadership and ‘followership’ models and the concept of empowerment and distributed leadership, to gain understanding of ethical leadership, culture and values within the delivery of care. You will explore the concepts of service improvement and gain experience of leading and participating in projects, using relevant management tools and techniques.

You will reflect on your observed experience of clinical leadership behaviours and management skills whilst on clinical placement throughout their course, to develop a personal development plan to guide your ongoing leadership development as a healthcare professional.

Compulsory

This module will equip you with the underpinning knowledge and skills required for your role in coordinating, leading and managing the complex needs of people, throughout the lifespan, within a Mental Health Care setting.

In this module you will analyse, critically examine and appraise the development, implementation and co-ordination of complex care packages across the lifespan. Critical consideration will be given to relevant evidence-informed practice, in particular how this relates to health legislation and current health and social care policies, related to complex Mental Health care needs within mental health services. You will critically examine how these factors can impact on family or carers in order that optimal independence can be maintained, and unnecessary interventions and disruptions to their lives can be avoided.

Compulsory

This module aims to extend your ability to practice more independently in a safe and increasingly competent and confident manner. This will enable you to become autonomous practitioners who are responsible and accountable for safe, compassionate, person-centred, evidence-informed nursing that respects and maintains dignity and human rights⁵.

Compulsory

This module aims to explore and critically debate issues related to specialist areas of mental health, within a local, national and international perspective. Mental health care covers a wide spectrum of issues which increasingly encompass specialist environments such as forensics, drug misuse, multi-cultural issues and issues related to gender. You will be exposed to discussion and debate related to these areas in order to develop insight and knowledge which will inform innovative mental health practice.

Compulsory

This module aims to provide you with opportunities to practice the competencies identified for registration as a nurse which are stipulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018)⁵. This includes demonstrating your competence to:

• Practice autonomously, compassionately, skilfully and safely whilst maintaining dignity and promoting health and wellbeing
• Display professional accountability and responsibility by the use of clinical governance processes to maintain and improve nursing practice and standards of healthcare
• Use management and leadership skills to take the lead in coordinating, delegating and supervising care safely, including the management of risk and ensuring public safety
• Communicate in a safe, effective, compassionate and respectful manner
• Exhibit the capability of informed decision making to promote, plan, and prioritise service delivery.

Compulsory

This module provides you with the opportunity to undertake an in-depth exploration in an area of special interest which will have relevance to nursing practice and which makes clear connections with local and/or national priorities in health and social care. You will establish a specific question upon which to focus and using an appropriate method of enquiry, you will be required to systematically investigate the question and analyse the information generated in order to derive a set of findings or results using a literature-based strategy. On the basis of the study results, you will be encouraged to identify the implications and recommendations for professional nursing practice and collaborative healthcare. On completion of this module, you will have an enhanced understanding of the relationship between the research and evidence-based practice and professional nursing care.

Compulsory

This module will critically review the accountability and responsibility of the registered nurse in clinical practice. It will explore the key attributes of accountable practice such as individual accountability, escalating concerns, managerial responsibilities, safety, quality, delegation and clinical decision-making within the context of providing safe, effective, person centred and compassionate care.

Compulsory