Nursing (Mental Health) BSc (Hons)

**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.**<br/><br/>**Home fee-paying students can access a non-repayable maintenance grant of at least £5,000 per year. You may also be eligible for additional financial support based on your circumstances. Learn more at www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/health-and-social-care/fees-and-funding**<br/><br/>**Course summary:**<br/>- Understand health sciences in the practice setting.<br/><br/><br/>- Gain the skills and values to enter highly skilled employment.<br/><br/><br/>- Develop a strong professional identity and confidence.<br/><br/><br/>- Learn to develop and deliver person-centred care.<br/><br/><br/>- Collaborate with other professional groups in health and social care.<br/><br/><br/>This unique course offers you an exciting opportunity to become a fully qualified mental health nurse, transforming the lives of individuals and communities. This challenging, stimulating course encourages you to develop your nursing skills in a friendly and supportive environment. You’ll graduate as a reflective, competent and employable professional.<br/><br/>**How you learn**<br/>All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.<br/><br/>On this course you’ll learn from enthusiastic academic staff who have a variety of clinical expertise and experience. You’ll apply your theoretical study directly to your practice setting, using the knowledge, skills and attributes you’ve gained.<br/><br/>Nurses are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team. So in some modules, you’ll learn and collaborate with students from other health and social care courses. This approach will help you to deliver person centred-care – with an understanding of how other professionals contribute to the persons journey through health and social care services. <br/><br/>You learn through<br/>- practice-based learning (50%)<br/><br/><br/>- lectures<br/><br/><br/>- workshops<br/><br/><br/>- tutorials<br/><br/><br/>- projects and group work<br/><br/><br/>- presentations<br/><br/><br/>- simulation<br/><br/><br/>- independent learning<br/><br/><br/>- skills rehearsal<br/><br/><br/>- technology-enhanced learning<br/><br/><br/>**Applied learning**<br/>**Work placements**<br/>You’ll apply the theory you study to practice-based learning experiences. Here you’ll develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice – preparing you to become a life-long, competent professional. The experiences you’re provided with are compulsory to achieve the course’s practice-based learning outcomes.<br/><br/>These experiences will help you build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity, and curiosity. They’ll take place in different practice-based learning environments – reflecting the range of ways services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements, alongside real-world experience of services delivered face to face to service users. <br/><br/>We’ll ensure the practice-based learning element of your course complies with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) – which governs the mental health nursing profession. So by the end of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to show that you meet the requirements to register as a mental health nurse. <br/><br/>**Future careers**<br/>This course prepares you for a career in<br/><br/><br/>- community mental health nursing<br/><br/><br/>- forensic nursing<br/><br/><br/>- acute mental health nursing<br/><br/><br/>- older adult mental health nursing<br/><br/><br/>- rehabilitation<br/><br/><br/>- prison nursing<br/><br/><br/>- children and adolescent mental health nursing<br/><br/><br/>- senior management, reaching and education<br/><br/><br/>- research and academia<br/><br/><br/>- further studies, leading to advanced practice, consultancy and clinical nursing<br/><br/><br/>Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work in<br/>- community settings<br/><br/><br/>- hospitals<br/><br/><br/>- public health<br/><br/><br/>- independent and voluntary sectors<br/><br/><br/>**Equipment and facilities**<br/>On this course you work with<br/><br/><br/>- clinical suites<br/><br/><br/>- simulated clinical environments<br/><br/><br/>- replicated community settings<br/>