Mental Health Nursing

Course information

Mental Health Nursing BSc (Hons) UCAS code: B760 www.coventry.ac.uk/ug/B760

Study option: 3 years full-time

Overview

If you hope for a rewarding career, a Mental Health Nursing degree can train you to care for the one-in-four of us now expected to need help for mental health issues at some point in our life (WHO, 2001).

Mental health nursing is a values-based, and very rewarding, profession working with children, young people and adults of all ages with a variety of mental health problems and from numerous cultures and backgrounds. These specialist nurses are usually based in hospitals or the community, for example, in GP surgeries, prison health, community health care or residential centres and patients’ own homes.

This course provides an opportunity for you to develop a knowledge of mental health, various disorders and innovative nursing care approaches. It is designed to equip you with the knowledge and competence to understand the experiences of people with mental health problems and to assist and facilitate their journey to recovery.

You will study in the award winning Alison Gingell Building which features hospital wards, an operating theatre, critical care settings, community housing and other real-life nursing environments relevant to practice. Placements offer opportunities to put your learning into practice in a real healthcare workplace.

Coventry University is ranked 4th in the UK for nursing and midwifery (Guardian University Guide 2020).

Indicative course structure

Year 1: ƒ The Scientific Foundations of Nursing Practice ƒ Fundamental Skills for Person and Family-Centred Care ƒ Study Skills for Evidence-Based Practice ƒ Foundations of Evidence-Informed Practice ƒ Introduction to the Foundations of Nursing Practice (Practice 1) ƒ The Foundations of Nursing Practice (Practice 2) ƒ Health and Wellbeing in the Community Year 2: ƒ Ethical and Legal Decision Making in the Context of Nursing ƒ Assessing Needs and Planning Care Across the Lifespan ƒ Developing the Management of Care across the Lifespan (Practice 3) ƒ Managing Care across the Lifespan (Practice 4) ƒ Therapeutic Interventions in Mental Health Care ƒ Facilitation of Teaching and Learning in Practice ƒ Developing Evidence Informed Decision Making in Nursing Final year: ƒ Leadership and Management for Health and Care Professionals ƒ Coordinating, Leading and Managing Complex Mental Health Care ƒ Coordinating Health and Social Care (Practice 5) ƒ Specialist Care in Mental Health Nursing ƒ The Autonomous Practitioner (Practice 6) ƒ Evidence Based Project ƒ Transition to the Accountable Practitioner

Accreditation

Fully accredited by the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). For more details on accreditations and renewals, see page 12.