Course summary

The relationship between a person with a mental illness and their nurse is central to helping them back to mental health. This course gives you the skills you need to offer person-centred care and, on completion, you can apply for registration as a mental health nurse. On this interactive course, you learn safe, effective nursing care that meets the needs of those with a mental health problem; it also teaches you to adapt your skills to individual situations, keeping the service user and their family at the centre of your care. It is a hands-on course where you develop your knowledge and skills in practice settings such as hospitals, prisons, service users’ homes, residential centres, specialist clinics and other community settings. Study areas include assessments and interventions in mental health nursing; mental health care across the lifespan; primary care services in the community; multi-professional care; leading complex care; and advocacy, empowerment and protection. Successfully completing this course leads to registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, allowing you to practise as a mental health nurse, in accordance with the NHS Constitution (see below). Why choose this course?

• Develop the practical skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours needed to meet the demands of mental health nursing in an evolving healthcare system

• Learn real-life skills in our on-campus simulation units as well as in a variety of practice settings

• Explore the value of inter-professional working, developing and using leadership and teamwork skills to influence contemporary and future practice

• Benefit from a course that prepares you for rewarding careers in the UK and overseas in acute in-patient mental healthcare, community-based mental healthcare, residential care settings or specialisms (such as secure care, assertive outreach, drug and alcohol services)