Mental Health Nursing
Coventry University
UCAS Code: B760 | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Excludes General Studies.
The Access to HE Diploma in Health or Science subject to include 24 Level 3 credits at Distinction in Health units. Plus GCSE English and Mathematics at grade 4 / C or above.
GCSE/National 4/National 5
5 GCSES at grade 4 / C or above including English, Mathematics and Science.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
to include 14 points at Higher level.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
in a Health, Sport or Science based subject.
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About this course
One in four people are expected to need help for mental health issues at some point in their life and helping people back to good mental health is every bit as valuable and satisfying as caring for those with a physical illness. For some people, mental illness can be triggered by a life event, such as the breakdown of a relationship, bereavement or the birth of a baby or personal circumstances, including work, an eating disorder or alcohol and drug abuse, for example.
This course builds on knowledge of mental health, various disorders and innovative nursing care approaches. It is designed to equip you with the knowledge and competence to understand the experiences of people with mental health problems and to assist and facilitate their journey to recovery. You might help one person to take their medication correctly, while advising or providing another with relevant therapies or social activities.
It aims to prepare you for the dynamic and fast changing health and social care system, developing you into an adaptable, flexible, reflective, competent and compassionate practitioner. From the outset, you’ll gain hands-on experience with real service users under supervision from qualified mentors, spending 50% of your time on clinical practice placements in a range of healthcare environments within the NHS in hospitals and community placements, at private hospitals and independent care providers.
While the course has a clear focus on mental health nursing, a key benefit of our curriculum is the notion of collaboration across all areas of health and social care. Your studies will be complemented with signi?cant insights into a range of potential challenges to health and wellbeing throughout the lifespan, such as learning disabilities, complex care and life limiting conditions.
Our links with universities in USA, Australia, China, and Hong Kong provide opportunities for student engagement in online projects and field trips. European links are also in development with potential field trips and student exchange to Finland, Denmark and Spain to compare health courses and nurse education globally. We are also one of only four UK members of the European Florence Network, helping create further opportunities for student nurse mobility.
**Key Course Benefits**
* Nursing at Coventry is ranked 4th best in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2020.
* The Alison Gingell Building provides facilities for teaching and research, featuring an operating theatre, critical care settings, community housing and other real life nursing environments relevant to practice.
* Opportunities for field trips within the UK include visits to Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Freud Museum in London, Broadmoor and Rampton High Security Hospital in Nottinghamshire and Glenside Mental Health Museum in Bristol.
* Offering well established clinical placements, teaching and research links with local partner Trusts within the National Health Service (NHS) and other healthcare providers, such as private hospitals, hospices and community settings.
Modules
Your main study themes are:
**Mental Health Nursing** Work with people in a way that values, respects and explores the meaning of their individual lived experiences of mental health problems, to provide person-centred and recovery-focused practice. They must be able to apply their knowledge and skills in a range of evidence-based individual and group psychological and psychosocial interventions, to carry out systematic needs assessments, develop case formulations and negotiate goals. Mental health nurses must understand and apply current legislation to all service users, paying special attention to the protection of vulnerable people of all ages. They must promote mental health and wellbeing and challenge the inequalities and discrimination that may arise from or contribute to mental health problems.
**Nursing practice** Develops the professional values, attitudes and behaviours required to deliver safe and effective, holistic person centred care. We’ll cover the key concepts of nursing, caring and clinical skills, as well as factors influencing care, for example, National Service Frameworks. Clinical skills acquisition which underpins these care factors will be taught and practiced in the simulated environment of clinical skills laboratories.
**Assessment and care pathways across the lifespan** Develops the ability to assess, interpret and manage a range of care requirements for service users. You’ll be introduced to the concept of health and wellbeing, enabling an understanding of the bio psychosocial needs of your patient group across the life span in all fields of nursing. You should develop an understanding of how assessments support and inform clinical judgement and decision making in practice, explored across primary, secondary and third sector care environments
**Evidence informed practice and decision making** Explores the principles and strategies of Evidence Informed Practice (EIP) to enable you to apply, creatively, a wide range of sources of evidence for clinical decision making. You will be introduced to research perspectives (methodology and design), audit, health policy, and service user participation as methods to evaluate your EIP plans and interventions.
**Communications and professionalism** Communication is highlighted as an essential skill for all health care professionals because it impacts on patient satisfaction. You should develop the key professional attributes incorporating the six ‘C’s model of communication, commitment, courage, care, competence, compassion.
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