Nursing - Mental Health - BSc (Hons)

This module aims to provide you with the knowledge and strategies to develop problem solving and decision making skills. These skills will enable you to undertake the assessment and planning of complex situations and health conditions across the life span in a variety of nursing settings.

This module builds on previous learning to further advance your knowledge and skills to provide holistic care across a variety of care settings. You will explore theory in order to lead, deliver and evaluate complex care for a range of service users across the lifespan. Expanding on the modules in level four and complex care 1, you will continue to develop nursing care which is person centred, encompasses empowerment, uses effective communication and employs evidence based interventions.

In this module, you will get the opportunity to focus on issues of quality and safety in health care, incorporating a public health perspective in both a national and global context. Building on level four modules you will further your understanding of health policy, exploring what influences public health and causes health inequalities. Well-being as a concept will be further explored particularly in relation to sexual health, as will the service users/patient’s capacity to manage their own health and the role of the nurse in assisting patients/service users to make behaviour changes. This will also build on the work done in previous modules on empowerment and person and family centred care.

The NMC (2018) and HEE stress nursing leadership is a core nursing role in the delivery of modern health services. You will build on the skills developed at level four to further consider nursing leadership, legal aspects of nursing and management strategies required in contemporary health and social care settings.

The module provides you with the opportunity for further development and ongoing support for practice elements of your programme. The module is designed to enable you to achieve within your chosen field of practice through ongoing guided participation in care within the practice setting. The module offers year 2 preparation, development and consolidation to support confidence and competence within the practice learning environment.

This module aims to build upon the ideas and concepts from the previous modules for a deeper understanding of approaches to mental health nursing. You will be exploring ideas relating to bio-psychosocial approaches to mental health care with underpinning knowledge of epidemiology, demography and wider determinants of health. There are many different approaches to working with and exploring a person’s experiences, however this will be done in such a way that we will draw on critical perspectives and what this means for those approaches.

This module aims to prepare you with the essential theoretical and practical elements to be able to prepare and administer medicines safely within a mental health care setting. You will continue to build on skills gained at levels 4 and 5, in order to develop a systematic process for safe medicines management and pharmacology. Particular emphasis will be placed on disease processes relating to the current pharmacological strategies to treat ill health, and exploring evidence-informed strategies to promote medication concordance in people experiencing mental illness.

This module aims to help you examine your identity as a leader, leadership theory, policy and research to guide the management of care as a mental health nurse. Caring for people experiencing mental health problems has recently been met with increasing levels of complexity and demand for services. Therefore provision of effective leadership is more important than ever before. As a result of these changes and to meet service demand, a number of new roles have been developed and introduced to the nursing workforce.

This module aims to consolidate your risk assessment, decision making and appraisal skills to ensure safety and quality of nursing practice across a variety of mental health care settings. This is especially important for the mental health nurse because your role is central to ensuring equality of access to health care services for people with mental health problems. The module supports you in becoming equipped with the skills and knowledge to work in partnership with a range of professionals, interdisciplinary teams and most importantly the service user, carer and family.

The module provides you with further development and ongoing support for practice elements of your programme. The module is designed to enable you to achieve within your chosen field of practice. This will be through ongoing supervision and by practicing independently with minimal supervision within the practice setting. The module offers year 3 preparation, development and consolidation to support confidence and competence within the practice learning environment.

As a non-credited module there is no formal assessment or award of credits. You would be required to submit a updated curriculum vitae (CV) a 500 word professional development plan, and undertake an interview with the course team.

Before being approved onto the module:

• You must be in the second or third year of your course.

• You must meet with the course lead to discuss your suitability to undertake the course, this includes a discussion of your ability to undertake the module alongside your nursing course and a review of your current progress.