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Mental Health Nursing (pre-registration) (Taught)

  • MS
  • 2 Years
  • Full-time
  • 01/2027
  • Postgraduate
Coventry University
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2026-2027
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Course summary

Pursue a career in mental health nursing utilising your current care experience and degree. On successful completion of the course, you will be eligible for registration as mental health nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Mental health (MH) nursing supports recovery and wellbeing across all ages through high-quality, holistic, person-centred care. This course trains you to build therapeutic relationships, promote patient involvement in decisions, and address psychological, physical and social needs while ensuring safeguarding.

  • This course aims to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and behaviours to independently address diverse mental health needs across the lifespan. It prepares you to analyse, develop, and deliver effective care to individuals, focusing on mental health and wellbeing, physiological and social needs with an emphasis on evidence-informed practice, care, and compassion.

  • Learn the clinical and personal skills required to provide autonomous, compassionate, and person-centred care. Learn to collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams as a mental health nurse to coordinate safe, evidence-based care.

  • Through recognition of your previous care experience and completion of four practice placements organised by Coventry University during your course, you should achieve 50 per cent practical placement training needed for registration as a mental nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

  • Study one module at a time, focussing on each subject in-depth to enable a deeper understanding and stronger retention of key concepts.

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Modules

Year One

  • Becoming a Professional Practitioner
  • Evaluating Evidence within Health and Care
  • Exploring Wider Influences on Health and Care
  • Assessment and Decision-making in Mental Health Nursing
  • Placement 1: Delivering Nursing Care
  • Placement 2: Delivering Enhanced Nursing Care

Year Two

  • The Evidence-based Practitioner: Professional Project
  • Leading for the Future as a Health and Care Professional
  • Therapeutic Interventions and Innovations in MH Nursing
  • Co-ordinating Complex Care within Mental Health Nursing
  • Placement 3: Delivering Complex Holistic Nursing Care
  • Placement 4: Practising Autonomously

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Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Nursing and Midwifery Council

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Coventry University

Study options

  • MS • Full-time • 2 Years

Start dates

  • 01/2027

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Entry requirements

  • An honours degree 2:2 or above in a health-related subject.
  • GCSE Grades 4/C or above in English and maths.
  • Satisfactory health clearance, confirmation of vaccination status and enhanced criminal record disclosure.

Please refer to the full requirements in the disclaimer section of the course page on our website.

All learners who meet the admission criteria are interviewed following a values-based recruitment process.

There is a requirement to demonstrate completion of 600 practice hours in relevant health/care settings through the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process to meet the NMC standard of nursing education of 2,300 practice hours. The RPL process will credit you for 600 hours to meet the stated NMC criteria. You will be supported in the RPL process.

Non-UK degrees may be accepted if healthcare related and accompanied by a certificate of comparability which you can obtain from www.enic.org.uk.

We recognise a breadth of qualifications. Speak to one of our advisers today to find out how we can help you.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

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