MSc Mental Health Nursing

You are required to undertake a minimum of 2300 hours of placement throughout the course, allowing you to apply your acquired knowledge and skills in the workplace. Arrangements are coordinated by BU and include a range of placement providers from NHS Trusts, Private & Voluntary Sectors, and GP surgeries.

• Applied Health Care Sciences 2: During this unit, you will analyze the impact of challenges to physical and mental health and well-being in individuals and groups across their lifespans. You’ll also examine biological, psychological, sociological, and social factors that impact diseases that affect both physical and mental health, applying this to the assessment, management, and evaluation of care for individuals and groups.

• Clinical Pharmacology and Medicines Management: You’ll learn how to apply your understanding of clinical pharmacology and medicines management as part of health care management in the context of relevant regulatory frameworks.

• Foundations of Nursing: This unit will introduce you to the theoretical foundations of nursing by examining philosophical, methodological, political, and legislative processes that inform nursing practice. You’ll gain knowledge of the core values underpinning the different fields of nursing and discuss how those core values can promote person-centered care through care planning and professional, evidence-based practice. 

• Meeting Acute and Long-Term Health Challenges: This unit will develop your knowledge and understanding of the nursing management and coordination of health care which is necessary for managing patients with acute and long-term health challenges.

• Making Improvements in Safety and Quality of Care: You’ll gain the knowledge and understanding required to promote and contribute to maintaining service user/patient safety and engaging in clinical practice risk management. You’ll also explore strategies for quality improvement and awareness of legislation and national and international frameworks to promote quality of care.

• Principles of Enquiry and Evidence-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Research is increasingly regarded as essential for health and social care practitioners as a source of evidence to support practice. In this unit, you’ll be introduced to inquiry and knowledge production approaches to demonstrate how different assumptions shape research processes and claims to knowledge. In addition, you’ll develop the skills to research your practice to critically evaluate the work of others and make judgments about its credibility and applicability in your practice context.

• Nursing Practice and Nursing Skills 2: This professional practice unit will provide you with the range of experiences you’ll need to develop your proficiency in line with the requirements set out by the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC).

• Team Working for Service Improvement: During this unit, you will develop skills for working in inter-professional teams to design and build service improvements for the people who use services and their carers.

• Making Change Through Clinical Leadership Management: This unit will prepare you to lead and manage yourself and others in the healthcare setting. You’ll evaluate management and leadership theories and how they inform managing change in the workplace and will critically analyze healthcare policy and public health strategy.

• Critical Health Care Sciences: You’ll critically analyze biopsychosocial concepts underpinning complex health needs, and the challenges individuals and groups face across their lives. This unit builds upon developing competence in the knowledge and application of pharmacology.

• Advanced Therapeutic Communications and Interpersonal Skills for Nursing Practice: This unit prepares you for the clinical and therapeutic conversations you will have with patients/service users in the healthcare setting and provides the skills to support individuals and their families to make informed decisions about their health and health care.

• Critical Analysis of Caring for People with Complex Health Care Needs: This unit will develop your critical understanding of and clinical decision-making skills for undertaking nursing assessments and risk assessments, leading to planning and prioritizing care for individuals and their families who experience vital and complex health care needs, their potential for deterioration and either recovery or death. 

• Advanced Principles of Enquiry and Evidence-Based Practice in Health & Social Care: This unit will prepare you to develop a proposal for a research study/ practice development/comprehensive review project. A range of research designs, approaches, methodologies, measurements, and analysis techniques will be introduced to understand your research and advance your application of knowledge.

• Nursing Practice and Nursing Skills 3:  This unit will develop the personal and professional skills you’ll need as a graduate entering the world of work as a professional nurse. You will demonstrate the appropriate ability to practice safely, responsibly, and professionally and be accountable for your practice by the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses.