Mental Health Nursing (pre-registration) MSc

Pursue a career in mental health nursing utilising your current care experience and degree. On successful completion of the course, you will be eligible for registration as mental health nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Mental health (MH) nursing supports recovery and wellbeing across all ages through high-quality, holistic, person-centred care. This course trains you to build therapeutic relationships, promote patient involvement in decisions, and address psychological, physical and social needs while ensuring safeguarding.


• This course aims to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and behaviours to independently address diverse mental health needs across the lifespan. It prepares you to analyse, develop, and deliver effective care to individuals, focusing on mental health and wellbeing, physiological and social needs with an emphasis on evidence-informed practice, care, and compassion.



• Learn the clinical and personal skills required to provide autonomous, compassionate, and person-centred care. Learn to collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams as a mental health nurse to coordinate safe, evidence-based care.



• Through recognition of your previous care experience and completion of four practice placements organised by Coventry University during your course, you should achieve 50 per cent practical placement training needed for registration as a mental nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).



• Study one module at a time, focussing on each subject in-depth to enable a deeper understanding and stronger retention of key concepts.



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