Mental Health Nursing BSc

Overview<br/>Get your career as a mental health nurse off on its best foot forward with UWS’s BSc Mental Health Nursing – an NMC-accredited programme with BSc Honours pathway providing a competitive, optional additional year to progress to Honours degree qualification. <br/><br/>You’ll gain the knowledge, skills, practical experience and confidence to treat complex health and mental health needs with a recovery-focused approach.<br/><br/>This programme consists of 50% theory and 50% work-based learning; allowing you to put the theory you learn into practice in real life clinical environments. Theory is delivered via a flipped classroom model, blending online and campus-based delivery to support your application of theory to clinical practice.<br/><br/>Programme highlights<br/><br/>• Upon graduation, you’ll achieve registration as a Registered Nurse in Mental Health with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).<br/>• This programme will provide you with the knowledge, skills, practical experience and confidence to become a mental health nurse.<br/>• You’ll be prepared for a career in one of the most complex and fascinating fields of healthcare.<br/>• An emphasis on work-based learning means you’ll spend a 50% of your time in clinical settings putting what you’ve learnt in university into practice.<br/>• You will learn in an interprofessional context with colleagues studying adult nursing.<br/>• There is a focus on integrated practice and the programme content is evidence-based and delivered by experienced lecturers, researchers and colleagues from clinical practice.<br/>• Support is offered throughout your academic and professional studies from a wide range of lecturers, university support services and colleagues in clinical settings.<br/><br/>Programme details<br/><br/>You’ll undertake a combination of mental health field specific and shared modules in each year of your studies. Work-based learning is built into many modules and makes up 50% of the BSc Mental Health Nursing programme. You’ll spend time on placement with local healthcare partners:<br/><br/>• NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde<br/>• NHS Highland<br/>• NHS Lanarkshire<br/>• NHS Dumfries & Galloway<br/>• NHS Golden Jubilee<br/><br/>NB: Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council will be linked to an exit award of BSc Mental Health Nursing.<br/><br/>Careers<br/><br/>This intellectually stimulating programme will prepare you for a successful career in a wide range of mental health settings, including:<br/><br/>• Older Adult and Dementia Care<br/>• Adult Mental Health<br/>• Child and Adolescent Mental Health<br/>• Community Mental Health<br/>• Forensic Mental Health<br/>• Drugs and Alcohol Services<br/><br/>UWS offers opportunities to develop further skills in mental health practice through its MSc Mental Health Practice and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy programmes, Forensic Mental Health, Leading People-centred Integrated Care, Nursing, Advanced Clinical Practice, Drug and Alcohol Studies and/or mental health research degrees.