Mental Health Nursing MSc

Through all core modules you will develop the Graduate Attributes, five core skillsets that will help you launch a successful, fulfilling career. Find out more about the Graduate Attributes.

• Health Promotion and Biopsychosocial factors across the life course (30 credits)

  In this module you will examine professional values; applied biological sciences; human experience across the lifecourse and the historical, biological and socioeconomic aspects of people’s lives; communication and interpersonal skills; nursing practice and decision making and leadership, management and team working.

• Practice 1- Foundations for Nursing Care (15 credits)

  This module will provide you with the opportunity to explore, experiment and engage in a range of practical nursing skills and enact scenarios in a realistic, but safe simulated environment, to help you prepare for the reality of practice

• Pathophysiology and Principles of prescribing (30 credits)

  Through this module you will explore evidence-based interventions to maximise the therapeutic benefits and minimise adverse effects of medicines. You will gain an understanding of pharmaceutical knowledge; principles of medicine dosage, side effects, reactions and interactions; concordance; philosophy and psychology of prescribing.

• Acute condition (15 credits)

  This module will equip you to recognise early signs of deterioration or vulnerability and take prompt action to reduce the risk of harm and promote recovery. It will enable you to work more independently and enhance your confidence and ability to deliver acute care and work with individuals, their families and carers.

• Integrated care to support health and well-being for individuals with long-term conditions (15 credits)

  The module is designed to integrate relevant pathophysiology, therapeutics and nursing management so that you can critically apply these in assessment, clinical decision making, planning, implementing and evaluating evidence informed nursing care.

• Critical Use of Evidence to Inform Decision Making in Practice (15 credits)

  This module will enable you to develop a critical understanding of research and its interpretation and implementation. This will enable you to propose new research questions and plan a future critical appraisal of the literature.

• Practice 2- Applying Knowledge and Skills for Person-Centred Care for Practice (15 credits)

  This module will prepare you to effectively provide safe, person-centred care within your field of practice. It will have an opportunity to explore, experiment and engage in a range of practical nursing skills and enact scenarios in a realistic, but safe, simulated environment.

• Leading and Managing Across Health and Social Care (15 credits)

  This module will develop your ability to confidently lead, manage and challenge in professional practice. There will be a focus on clinical decision making; risk assessment and management; quality improvement and change management.

• Practice 3: Developing Advanced Knowledge and Skills for Professional Practice (15 credits)

  This module will provide you with the opportunity to explore, experiment and engage in activities for advancing nursing practice in a realistic, but safe simulated environment, to help you prepare to care for individuals with complex needs in different healthcare settings.

• Dissertation (30 credits)