PgDip / MSc Mental Health Nursing
Overview
This course is no longer accepting applications for September 2020 start.
Exceptionally rewarding
Mental health nursing is a constantly evolving field, with as many as one in four people experiencing a mental health issue each year. We’ll help you to meet the challenges of effective mental health care provision
You’ll gain practice experience in a wide range of in-patient and community settings, reflecting the diversity of mental health specialities. This could include acute psychiatry, child and adolescent mental health, forensic psychiatry, eating disorders, substance use and rehabilitation.
Why Mental Health Nursing at LSBU?
- We have been delivering high quality, advanced nursing education for over 20 years.
- Success on this course makes you eligible to register as a mental health nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
- 3rd for research intensity in London (Complete University Guide 2020).
Modules
Some compulsory skills sessions may take place in the evening.
You will be taught separately from the three-year undergraduate students and will study the following:
Year 1
- Assessing, planning and providing care in Mental Health Nursing
- Applied physiology for Mental Health Nursing
- Promoting health and preventing ill health
- Pharmacology and medicines management in MH Nursing
Year 2
- Enhancing and evaluating care in Mental Health Nursing
The module develops students’ ability to utilise clinical reasoning to respond to and manage unfamiliar and complex scenarios in mental health nursing, to evaluate care that is provided and to develop the skills of other members of the team. The module is mapped against the NMC (2018) standards and prepares students to carry out fundamental nursing skills across the four fields of nursing utilising a combination of teaching methods including simulated practice. - Research in health and social care
- Acute and complex care in Mental Health Nursing
- Mother and new-born
- Transition to Leadership.
Entry requirements
Applicants will be considered on an individual basis but will normally require:
- A Bachelor degree with a minimum 2:2 classification. Candidates without a health or science related degree are required to complete a Life Sciences work book package to satisfy the Life Sciences element of the APL portfolio.
- In accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirements, Maths and English GCSEs/equivalent (at C or above) are also required.