The BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing Practice degree will allow you to learn how to deliver compassionate and restorative care to those experiencing mental distress and illness. As a critical thinker, you'll deliver effective and sincere person-centred care based upon a contemporary evidence-base, which will be administered and applied within a spectrum of clinical skills to include physical health monitoring and promotion, and interpersonal therapeutic skills to promote recovery and positive mental wellbeing.

 

As a mental health nurse, you'll be competent and confident in working with and supporting a ‘whole-systems’ evidenced approach in diverse settings, ensuring the mental wellbeing of families and carers with a relative experiencing mental distress. Partnership working with multi-professionals and services will ensure the very best care and outcomes are reached for those experiencing mental illness.

 

A combination of practice placements with our NHS partner Trusts and on-campus learning using our interactive facilities alongside our Patient, Carer and Public Involvement (PCPI) participants will give you the chance to develop your skills and experience.

 

On successful completion of the Mental Health Nursing course, you'll be eligible to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a registered mental health nurse.

 

We use various methods of teaching on the Mental Health Nursing course including:

• Problem-based learning
• Seminar groups and interactive workshop sessions 
• Inter-professional experiential learning
• Consolidation sessions
• The role of simulation in the development of competence 
• Webcasts
• Clinical skills sessions
• Patient and professional contact
• Inter-professional learning
• Self-directed study
• The University of Sunderland Virtual Learning Environment
• The Nurse Navigator System.

 

Assessment methods on the Mental Health Nursing degree include written reports, essays, examinations, oral presentations, portfolios, clinical reflection diaries, competency logs, patient care plans, and case studies.

 

Spending time on clinical placements in a range of settings under the supervision of registered practitioners will give you the chance to practise what you learn in a real-life setting, giving you a taste of what to expect as a qualified nurse.