BSc (Hons) in Nursing - Mental Health
University of Stirling
Key Information
Campus location
Stirling, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
48 months
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
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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 Top 5 in Scotland for Nursing (Complete University Guide 2023)
# 2 We work with NHS Forth Valley, to ensure that our course remains clinically excellent and that you’ll receive the best possible practical education
# 3 We've received multiple commendations from the Nursing and Midwifery Council, including for our close working relationships with practice partners
Professional accreditation
The course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Curriculum
Course details
This course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). 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 patient-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 care 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.
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 demonstrate these skills in your final practice learning experience. Clinical skills teaching is 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.
Teaching
We've been awarded five star excellence for our teaching by the QS World University Rankings 2021. A wide range of approaches to teaching and learning is used on this course. We take a student-centered approach which uses small group teaching (enquiry and scenario based learning) along with lectures, seminars, group work and clinical skills teaching.
Assessment
Each semester you’ll be assessed by a range of methods including exams, essays, reports, clinical skills assessments, presentations and assessments of practice. You need to pass these before progressing to the next semester.
Prizes or awards
Students can be nominated for The Student Nursing Times Awards or the newly formed RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year. These awards celebrate the very best in student nurses and nurse education, recognising educational establishments and honouring those who are committed to developing new nursing talent. The University of Stirling has won Student Nursing Times Awards in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021. Catherine Watson was awarded Student Nurse of the Year 2022.
Work placement opportunities
Your course will provide you with a wide range of practice learning placements. These will take place in the NHS Forth Valley area.
Contact
Student Recruitment and Admissions
+44 (0) 1786 466340