Mental Health Nursing

A 24-year-old man with OCD, unable to leave the house. A mother with young children with suicidal thoughts. A middle-aged man with depression and substance abuse issues.

Our high-tech, high-speed lifestyles and the pressure of constant connection to social media means that mental health and wellbeing is a growing health concern for our society. During this three-year course, you’ll develop the expertise to manage both the physical and psychological needs of patients.

Some of the topics you’ll explore include the ethics of medicine management, recovery approaches, and intervention therapies for substance abuse. You’ll also learn practical skills in conflict resolution, how to manage challenging behaviour, and how to safeguard vulnerable patients.

When you’re on campus, you’ll practice clinical techniques, such as how to manually take a patient’s blood pressure and how to give emergency care in our Clinical Simulation Suite. Here, we create simulations of a patient’s journey from admission to discharge.

All students must demonstrate in their personal statements an understanding of mental health nursing in the UK incorporating the NHS core values, Nursing and Midwifery Council code, vision for nursing and future nurse training standards as well as contemporary issues in mental health nursing. You must evidence an understanding of the qualities required to be a nursing professional in the UK in order to be shortlisted for an interview. Successful applicants will be invited to attend an online group interview.

Features and benefits

- Approved course- This course has been approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

- Become a registered nurse- This course leads to registration as a nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

- Real-world experience- On this course you will spend an equal amount of time on clinical placements in community and hospital settings and at University on nursing theory.

- Employability- 94% of BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing graduates are employed/in further education fifteen months after graduating. (Graduate Outcomes survey 2020/21 graduates – UK, full-time, first degree respondents. Contains HESA Data © HESA 2020 hesa.ac.uk).

- Enhanced content - You will have the opportunity to gain the added benefit of an additional experience in Acute Illness Management.

- Outstanding facilities - We have well equipped clinical skills laboratories complete with computerised sim-man manikins, used to demonstrate both basic and challenging conditions and nursing interventions.

- Shared learning- Opportunity for shared learning with other undergraduates and learning with the adult nursing students within the integrated elements of the course.

- GCSE help- We accept one equivalency test in either science or mathematics for the purpose of securing a place on our nursing courses.