Nursing Practice (Mental Health) - Stafford Campus

Learn the professional skills to make a real difference to people’s lives and support them through significant mental health challenges.

We’ll equip you with the proficiencies and confidence to help patients cope with issues such as depression, psychosis, trauma and dementia.

You’ll learn psychotherapeutic interventions and psychological therapies, including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), counselling and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). You’ll practise your skills using our simulation facilities. These immersive spaces can be turned into a flat, ward, therapy room, GP practice or another real-world setting.

This will prepare you for working with actual patients on placements. Students can also do an elective placement, with some choosing to go abroad for this or specialise in a particular field.

Other opportunities include gaining micro-certificates in different therapies, which will improve your career prospects. You can also work on published research.

As the course is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, you can apply to become a registered mental health nurse on graduation. You could work in acute, community and specialist services.

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice (Mental Health)

Course Modules

Year One Core: Mental Health Nursing Care; Mental Health Nursing in Practice 1; Mental Health Nursing in Practice 2; Mental Health Nursing in Practice 3; Mental Health and Physical Health Through the Lifespan (RN); Professional, Legal and Ethical Considerations
Year Two Core: Mental Health Nursing in Practice 4; Mental Health Nursing in Practice 5; Mental Health Nursing in Practice 6; Altered Mental Health and Physical Health through the Lifespan; Human Factors: Risk, Decision-Making and Uncertainty; Physical Assessment and Preparation for Prescribing
Year Three Core: Mental Health Nursing in Practice 7; Mental Health Nursing in Practice 8; Mental Health Nursing in Practice 9; Peer Learning and Teaching in Professional Nursing Practice; The Evidence-Base for Practice

Your course will provide you with opportunities to test your understanding of your subject informally before you complete the formal assessments that count towards your final mark. Each module normally includes practice or ‘formative’ assessments, for which you receive feedback from your tutor. Practice assessments are developmental and any grades you receive for them do not count towards your module mark. There is a formal or ‘summative’ assessment at the end of each module. This includes a range of coursework assessments, such as essays, reports, portfolios, performance, presentations, final year, independent project and written examinations. The grades from formal assessments count towards your module mark.