STUDY

This module is about setting the right foundations for the nursing degree course. You will cover some of the fundamental principles of nursing care.

This module is looking in depth at the physical health needs of our service users. You will spend some time during this module in the skills labs practicing your newly acquired skills. This module highlights the complexity of our service users, how physical health should be equally considered along side mental health. 

This module is about provide theory and practice related directly to promoting mental well-being and preventing mental distress; it will inform you the student on how to deliver a mental health first aid kit to a variety of problems in living which can be experienced as a result of mental trauma and can effect a person life style choices. The overall aim being to reduce the impact of mental trauma on an individual leading their live to the full. The module will promote joint working between the nurse and person they are caring for.

This module is about how as mental health nurses we can use creative ways to engage our service user and support recovery. 

This is a mandatory module of Year 1 - Level 4.

This module is about developing and practicing your communication skills, digging deeper and thinking about how you can be curious in a sensitive and person centred manner to support hat person with recovery.

Within this module you become familiar with research and the fundamental need for it for the progression of the profession of nursing.  All nurses need to develop the skills to understand and appraise research, apply research findings to contemporary practice and contribute to the body of evidence. This module will help to inform your knowledge and understanding of the research process in preparation for the Dissertation module.

This module focuses on medication and its use within mental health. You will be exploring the complex nature of prescribing medication and consider how we support service users to feel empowered. 

This module is focused on models of care using within mental health nursing. Thinking about how you care plan and assess needs of individuals, how you evaluate the care delivered. 

This is a mandatory module of Year 2 - Level 5.

In this module you will cover the role of the nurse within a leadership position. Considering how role modelling is important within nursing practice, you will explore supervision and delegation, communication skills, team working. These skills are essential in order to deliver safe and effective care that upholds and respects the voice of the service user.

Nurses are educated to think critically and often make life and death decisions and act as an advocate for patients at the bedside and therefore should feel more empowered to shape local and national health and social care policy. Within this module politics and contemporary issues are explored.

This purpose of this module is to start thinking about the complex service uses we have within our care. You will also start preparation for qualify here, thinking about how you might manage your time, support junior staff, teaching others, your future development needs.

This module is about building on your research skills from level 5, you will be expected here to produce a larger piece of written work and whilst this might seem daunting right now you will have been building up to this throughout the course.

This is a mandatory module of Year 3 - Level 6.