Adult and Mental Health Nursing

Overview
Our MNurse Adult and Mental Health Nursing course, offers a unique opportunity to gain dual registration as both an adult and mental health nurse. This reflects the growing need for nurses who understand how physical and mental health are connected. Learning the importance of supporting people’s mental and physical health together is essential in today’s person-centred healthcare environments.

This course offers a blended learning experience, integrating both in-person sessions and online activities. This approach is designed to enhance your engagement, deepen your understanding, and help you develop essential skills for academic and professional success.

Explore how nurses help prevent mental distress, illness, promote healthy living and support communities. Understand how factors like housing, income, and the environment affect health whilst you work with other professionals to encourage healthy lifestyles amongst the local community. This will prepare you to provide psychological, physical, and social care.

You’ll also learn techniques to build relationships and trust with patients, helping them overcome challenges and make positive changes in their lives.

Designed to boost your employability, the course includes modules that develop your skills in understanding each person's unique needs, and applying evidence-based practice to support them. You’ll learn to provide inclusive care, tackle health inequalities, and make a positive impact in diverse communities and healthcare settings.

You’ll build strong theoretical knowledge and apply it through practical learning, developing essential skills like critical thinking and problem-solving. Beyond the classroom, you’ll have access to extra-curricular opportunities such as nursing societies, volunteering, and healthcare events, helping you grow your network and build a well-rounded skill set.

You’ll also have the chance to take part in international placements, giving you a global perspective on nursing and healthcare delivery.

Placements
You'll spend 50% of the course working in a variety of clinical placements, working shifts within the 24-hour cycle, in line with the NMC standards for registration. You'll experience what it's like to work in both adult nursing and mental health environments and gain hands-on training from working professionals to support you in the development of your clinical skills.

We have excellent links with NHS Trusts and healthcare providers in the region.

Why the University of Worcester?

The University of Worcester is a campus university, meaning everything you need is on site. We’re based in a vibrant cathedral city just 40 mins south of Birmingham and an hour north of Bristol, and our beautiful green campuses have plenty of parking and quality on-site accommodation.

For almost three decades, we've been educating professionals to work in the health and social care sectors, from Nurses and Midwives to Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, Paramedics to Physician Associates. Each year, hundreds of professionals graduate from Worcester and go on to make a significant contribution to society. In 2023 our new Three Counties Medical School welcomed its first cohort of students.

At the University of Worcester small class sizes, supportive tutors and professionally focussed courses mean you’ll be prepared for your dream career. These are just some of the reasons why we’re first in the UK for both graduate employment and quality education.

• First in the UK for sustained employment and/or further study (excluding specialist institutions), 5 years after graduation – Longitudinal Education Outcomes data 2024.

• First in the UK for quality education – Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2024.

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