Course summary

Overview Mental Health Nursing needs compassionate and highly skilled individuals. You will learn from the expertise of experienced mental health academics, clinicians, service users and carers. This innovative course will enable you to think critically about current issues in mental health and will equip you with the specialist skills to provide high quality person-centred mental health care as a future graduate mental health nurse. Clinical placements in a variety of specialist areas will provide opportunities for you to learn about mental health nursing from real life experience. You will receive expert teaching and student focused support to nurture your development to provide high quality mental health care as a graduate Mental Health Nurse. Key features

• You will learn about Evidence based Practice within a variety of Acute, Community and Primary Mental health clinical placements, which forms 50% of your course

• On successful completion of the Mental Health BSc (Hons) Nursing programme, you will deliver, safe, effective, compassionate Mental Health Care and you will be eligible for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council

• You will develop your knowledge of inter-professional practice, to help enhance your role as a Mental Health Nurse in both general and mental health settings

• A unique insight into the experiences of service users and carers is provided through collaborative teaching with the University Based IMPACT Lecturers. You will have the opportunity to learn from lived experience which enhances the quality of the Mental health Nursing course

• Mental Health Practitioners provide contemporary, clinically based teaching to enhance the quality of the Mental Health Nursing modules and to develop your critical thinking skills in assessments, care planning and interventions

• Opportunities to complete either a UK or international elective placement, for example, in Finland, Denmark, Ireland and Tanzania.

• Shortlisted for Best Student Experience in the annual Student Nursing Times Awards 2022, while several students were shortlisted across a number of categories in the Awards.

• For almost three decades, the University of Worcester has been educating professionals to work in the health and social care sectors, from Nurses and Midwives to Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, Paramedics to Physician Associates. Each year, hundreds of professionals graduate from Worcester and go on to make a significant contribution to society. The University’s new medical school welcomed its first cohort of students in September 2023. The Three Counties Medical School will help to address the pressing need for more doctors in this left-behind part of the Country.

• The University of Worcester has been ranked in the top 5 in the UK for Quality Education in the Times Higher Education’s University Impact Rankings every year since its inception in 2019. The University has also been ranked in the top 5 in the UK for Gender Equality in all years of the rankings and currently holds the number one spot (2023).