Mental Health Nursing

Overview
Get your career as a mental health nurse off on its best foot forward with UWS’s BSc Mental Health Nursing (with or without Honours) – an NMC-accredited programme with BSc Honours pathway providing a competitive, optional additional year to progress to Honours degree qualification.

You’ll gain the knowledge, skills, practical experience and confidence to treat complex health and mental health needs with a recovery-focused approach.

This programme consists of 50% theory and 50% work-based learning; allowing you to put the theory you learn into practice in real life clinical environments. Theory is delivered mainly on campus and in clinical practice placements with an expectation of independent study to support your application of theory to clinical practice.

Programme highlights
• Upon graduation, you’ll achieve registration as a Registered Nurse in Mental Health with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• This programme will provide you with the knowledge, skills, practical experience and confidence to become a mental health nurse.
• You’ll be prepared for a career in one of the most complex and fascinating fields of healthcare.
• An emphasis on practice-based learning means you’ll spend a 50% of your time in clinical settings putting what you’ve learnt in university into practice.
• You will learn in an interprofessional context with colleagues studying adult nursing.
• There is a focus on integrated practice and the programme content is evidence-based and delivered by experienced lecturers, researchers and colleagues from clinical practice.
• Support is offered throughout your academic and professional studies from a wide range of lecturers, university support services and colleagues in clinical settings.

Programme details

You’ll undertake a combination of mental health field specific and shared modules in each year of your studies.

You’ll spend time on placement with local healthcare partners:
• NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
• NHS Highland
• NHS Lanarkshire
• NHS The State Hospital
• NHS Dumfries & Galloway

NB: Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council will be linked to an exit award of BSc Mental Health Nursing or BSc Hons Mental Health Nursing.

Careers This intellectually stimulating programme will prepare you for a successful career in a wide range of mental health settings, including: • Older Adult and Dementia Care • Adult Mental Health • Child and Adolescent Mental Health • Community Mental Health • Forensic Mental Health • Drugs and Alcohol Services

UWS offers opportunities to develop further skills in mental health practice through its MSc Cognitive Behavioural Therapy programmes, MSc Forensic Mental Health, Leading People-centred Integrated Care, MSc Nursing, Advanced Clinical Practice, Drug and Alcohol Studies and/or mental health research degrees.