Nursing Studies (Registered Nurse Mental Health Nursing) with Foundation Year

UCAS code: B761

Here's what University of Surrey says about its Nursing Studies (Registered Nurse Mental Health Nursing) with Foundation Year course.

Why choose this course -Access our state-of-the-art Clinical Simulation Centre, featuring wards and a community flat, to practise scenarios with professional actors.

-Gain extensive experience out on clinical placements with our NHS partner trusts, which you’ll combine with theoretical learning to ensure you meet the requirements of our registering body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

-Learn from a multidisciplinary team of lecturers who are all healthcare professionals with experience of working in the NHS. Many are also active researchers, investigating topics such as clinical risk, dementia, ethics, and compassionate practice.

-Benefit from a course that champions interprofessional learning, allowing you to practise alongside midwifery and paramedic science students to get the best preparation for life out in practice.

-Get the academic requirements needed to register with the NMC to work as a mental health nurse once you’ve graduated.

What you will study On our BSc Mental Health Nursing course, you’ll be exposed to a variety of mental health clinical practice experiences where you’ll learn interpersonal engagement and assessment strategies to use with service users, and how to effectively provide care when patients are in crisis.

In your first year, you’ll study topics that are fundamental to mental health nursing, including anatomy and physiology, public health promotion and explore self-awareness and the ability to use the self therapeutically, ensuring you have a solid foundation upon which to build the rest of your degree.

During your second year, you’ll begin to plan and deliver effective, evidence-based care to people experiencing specific mental health difficulties. You’ll learn how to empower people on their recovery journeys, utilising mental health policy and multi-agency approaches. You’ll also explore the interrelationship between physical and mental health comorbidities integrating with other health professionals and partner agencies like the police and social care.

In your third year, you’ll develop your decision-making and leadership skills, and will gain insight into how psychosocial, spiritual, ethical and legal influences have an impact on the way patient care is provided.

Foundation year The BSc Nursing with foundation has an additional year of study designed to support your transition on to latter years of the course. You will study full-time for one year at foundation level, and after successfully completing it you will be ready to move on to the next three years of the course.

Students will be required to undertake some local insight days as part of their foundation year programme. These local insight days will be arranged by the University. Students will be responsible for associated costs (i.e. travel).

To see the full range of modules for this course please visit our website – the link is under the Course contact details. You will also find full details of the programme, including programme structure, assessment methods, contact hours and Graduate prospects.