BSc(Hons) in Nursing (Mental Health)
UWE Bristol
Key Information
Campus location
Stapleton, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
GBP 15,250 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* home students per year: £9250 | international students per year: £15250
Introduction
Our employer links, practical focus and the clinical experience offered means that you'll develop the confidence and critical skills you need to propel your mental health nursing career.
Why study mental health nursing?
Nursing is a challenging but rewarding career that'll change lives, including your own. As a mental health nurse, you'll play your part in improving access to healthcare, well-being, social inclusion and quality of life.
Working in a variety of settings, including specialist and community services, and people's homes, mental health nurses provide focused health support to people of all ages.
Why UWE Bristol?
You'll learn from a passionate, enthusiastic, skilled and supportive team with a range of experience across all the many different aspects of Mental Health nursing, and other fields of nursing. As many of our staff are active researchers, your learning will be enriched by the very latest in best practices and clinical understanding.
This course has a strong practical focus, allowing you to gain competence in carrying out the hands-on tasks you'll perform in your career. About half your time will be spent on placements with our established partners. You'll also have regular access to outstanding facilities including our Skills Simulation Suite: an imitation ward where you'll be able to develop your clinical expertise in a safe, instructive environment.
Based at Glenside Campus, you'll interact with and learn from other students from a range of health and social care courses. You'll develop essential people skills as you work with patients and their families, as well as our partners on placements, in class and online. There's also the opportunity to develop and apply your skills working abroad.
Where can it take me?
You'll have exciting career opportunities open to you in several different areas. Mental health nurses are in demand across the UK, and you could go on to work in a broad variety of specialist areas and interesting roles.
You could work for the NHS, in hospitals and community settings. You could also take your skills into the armed forces, prison service, the private sector or voluntary organisations.
And with a 99.1% employment/further study rate (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2019/20, published 2022), you won't be short of opportunities once you graduate.
Program Outcome
Professional accreditation
This course is accredited by The Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Placements
UWE Bristol's geographical area for placement provision covers the whole of the South, South West and West of England. Placements across this region help support and provide a wealth of clinical experience across many areas within the NHS healthcare service and the Private Voluntary and Independent sectors. These placements are vital to meet the professional regulatory body standards in practice for our affiliated health and social care courses.
To access this variety of opportunities within the health and social care courses, there's an expectation that all students at times will have to travel across large areas. In some cases, this can be more than 50 miles away and may be outside of normal working hours due to the nature of shift work on some courses.
When considering your application to these courses, you must ensure you have the means to travel to your placement location at unsociable hours, and/or funds available to secure short-term accommodation options to participate in your placement, if required.
With two practice placements a year, you'll spend half the course applying your knowledge and building your professional skills working with people, their families and healthcare professionals in a range of settings.
We have excellent links with our local employers, and placements are normally split between NHS roles and positions into private or voluntary sector organisations.
You'll get a broad range of practice experiences, putting you in a strong position for future employment in either a community or hospital setting. In each placement setting you'll receive support and guidance from supervisors and assessors.
During the course, you'll experience placements across a range of practice areas including hospital, community, and social care settings. Within these placement experiences, you'll be supervised and assessed to achieve the proficiencies within the course and complete the 2300 hours of practice learning as required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. As part of this, you'll also experience simulated learning experiences which will enhance your practice learning, provide exposure to hard-to-reach areas of practice, and focus on developing advanced skills.
Career Opportunities
Registered nurses are in demand across the UK and our graduates enter careers in a variety of roles for the NHS, private and voluntary sector employers, in community and hospital settings.
Our graduates go on to work in both adults and children's mental health services across a large range of settings and services.
You could go into community settings, including community mental health services, hospital outpatients and emergency departments, secure residential units or service users' homes.
Once qualified, you can also combine clinical work with a study on a post-qualifying course. By specialising further in a specific area, you can progress to more senior positions such as consultant nurse, nurse specialist, researcher, or local or regional services manager.
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Our award-winning careers service will develop your employment potential through career coaching and find you graduate jobs, placements and global opportunities.
We can also help find local volunteering and community opportunities, provide support for entrepreneurial activity and get you access to employer events.
Curriculum
Content
The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.
Year one
You will study:
- Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology for Nursing
- Episodes of Care 1
- Fundamentals of Nursing Practice
- Principles of Nursing (Field Specific)
- Sustainable Global Public Health.
Year two
You will study:
- Assessment and Decision Making
- Episodes of Care 2
- Episodes of Care 3
- Pharmacology and Medicines Management
- Research Methodologies of Nursing Enquiry
- Supporting People with Complex Needs.
Final year
You will study:
- Episodes of Care 4
- Leadership and Supervision
- Nursing Final Project
- Transition to Registration.
Plus, one optional module from:
- Collaborative Approaches to Effective Pain Management
- Crossing Borders
- Health Needs of Children and Adults on the Autism Spectrum
- Healthy Ageing
- Introduction to Emergency Care
- Primary and Community Healthcare
- Public Health and Health Promotion for Professional Practice
- Solution-Focused Practice Developing Empowering Conversations with People
- Using the mental Capacity Act in Practice
- World Wide Nursing.
The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved, we will inform you.