Nursing (Mental Health) BSc

This modules considers:

• The care of patients and clients with increasingly complex illnesses requiring multifaceted treatments and care in all settings.  
• Scientific and technological advances to understand disease processes and potential treatment options.  
• The core bioscience and related modules in year 1 by providing opportunities for students to integrate and further develop their understanding of physiological, altered physiological and pathophysiological processes occurring within the body.  
• Application of essential physiological principles through general and field specific, case-based learning.
• The principles of pharmacology to form a foundation for the preparing to prescribe module.
• Applied knowledge using scenarios to illustrate the links to informing nursing care, developing care, and exploring treatment options, specifically including pharmacological requirements

What influences health? This module will critically review the psychology and social influences on health. The learning within this module will be integrated into clinical learning to promote holistic health assessment.

This module considers:

• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence based nursing specific to the students’ field of practice (adult/ child/ mental health).
• Assessment and management of comorbidities. Implementation of evidence based nursing throughout the lifetime, including end of life care. 
• Develop resilience for practice.
• Optimisation pharmacological interventions

This module considers:

• The theoretical content and clinical learning into the practice experience in order to enable students to apply their learning in practice. 
• Reflective writing development – incorporating the evidence base, being a reflective practitioner.
• Preparing for Assessment in Clinical Placement – transferability of skills, evidencing learning, and proactive preparation for summative assessment. 
• Maximising opportunities in Clinical Placements – identifying learning needs, setting goals, incorporating feedback, preparing for assessment.
• Adult and Child branch students: maternal health.
• Professional responsibilities –working within limitations, Risk assessment, incident reporting and management, safeguarding, whistleblowing and clinical governance. 
• Professional boundaries, behaviours and considerations for Elective placement.
• Support with Elective Plan and development of learning outcomes.
• Support with Elective Risk Assessment

This module consders:

• A review of the major research paradigms. 
• Introduce the concept of clinical audit and how this can be used to improve practice.
• Evidence through collaboration, introduction to systematic reviews. 
• Advanced critical thinking.
• Quality assurance.
• Patient safety.
• Evidence as an agent of change and consideration of the barriers to change. 
• Critical interpretation of written data.
• Introduction and interpretation of numeric data. 
• Research ethics and the special considerations in health care.
• Introduction to the extended literature review. 
• Advance literature searching. 
• Manage evidence by the use of tools e.g Endnote and Zotero
• Development of a research proposal in preparation for the  year three extended literature review

This module considers:

• The personal leadership development of students and the main issues relating to developing leadership skills.  
• Leadership approaches, strength based approaches, communication skills, planning, risk assessment, supporting others and use of clinical supervision networks, change and change management, networking and partnership working.  
• Reflection on aspects of practice and make observations of leaders in practice.   
• Underpinning themes will be explored within these topics including the effects of power, empowerment, self-awareness, understanding group dynamics and effective team working.  
• Processes around human resource management, health economics, budgets and safe staffing.