BSc in Nursing - Mental Health
University of Stirling
Key Information
Campus location
Stirling, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
36 Months
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
Introduction
Overview
Mental Health nursing is a challenging yet rewarding profession where you can make a real difference to people’s lives.
Our innovative Mental Health Nursing course will prepare you to meet the needs of a modern profession and provide the best possible care. You will leave us as a confident and capable practitioner, fully equipped to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and join a health care team upon graduation.
Top reasons to study with us
#1 We're ranked top 5 in Scotland for Nursing (National Student Survey 2023 and Complete University Guide 2023).
#2 The University of Stirling has won Student Nursing Times Awards in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021
#3 Our curriculum is informed by ground-breaking research: 100% of our research environment classed as world leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021)
Curriculum
Course details
This course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). New information about the modules will be displayed here soon. You will study alongside our Adult Nursing students throughout the programme and our BSc Paramedic Science students during Year 1 of the programme to gain an understanding of how health and social care professionals work together to bring about the best in person-centred care. Our course will develop your critical and reflective thinking and in doing so improve your self-awareness, self-confidence and personal resilience.
Each year of the course meets the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirement of 50% theory and 50% practice. You’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of nursing, and then progress to specialist areas such as therapeutic skills, recovery, trauma-informed and leadership skills.
Through our partnerships with a diverse range of health and social care organisations, you will have the opportunity to put theory into practice. You may work both day and night shifts to coincide with the patterns of the clinical area and your allocated Practice Supervisor and Practice Assessor, who will facilitate and support your learning in practice. You’ll also have the choice of undertaking a national or international placement.
This course is designed for you to achieve proficiencies required for registration in the UK as a nurse. You may also have the choice of undertaking a national or international placement.
You’ll be allocated a personal tutor, who will be a source of guidance, information and support during your studies.
In the theory learning, you will be supported to demonstrate a growing knowledge and understanding of the life sciences and relational and trauma informed care approaches. You will examine the skills and theory of leadership in practice and demonstrate these skills in your final practice learning experience. Clinical skills teaching are tailored around mental health scenarios.
In Year 2 you will study two mental health specific modules and in Year 3 one mental health specific module as well as shared modules with Adult Nursing students.
Advances in knowledge require that Mental Health Nurses continually incorporate new research findings into their practice; this awareness is embedded in our course. Your ability to incorporate evidence-based, outcomes-orientated practice is part of our course philosophy.