Nursing Studies (Mental Health) Pre-registration

Teesside University

United Kingdom, Middlesbrough

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Teesside University

United Kingdom , Middlesbrough

Key Facts

Program Level

Master by Course Work

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Campuses

Main Site

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake DeadlinesJanuary-2024

Apply to this program

Go to the official application for the university

Duration 106 week(s)

Tuition Fee

GBP 15,000 / year

Next Intake January-2024

Nursing Studies (Mental Health) Pre-registration

About

Accredited

From September 2020 all new and continuing students on this course will receive a £5,000 maintenance grant each year if they're eligible. They will not need to pay it back. Full details here

As a mental health nurse you are in a unique and privileged position. You play a key role in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the wide-ranging care needs of people experiencing mental health problems and their families. This requires hard work, commitment and excellent interpersonal skills.

If you are a motivated graduate with healthcare experience, this course gives you an exciting opportunity to work towards professional registration within two years, and prepares you for a fulfilling and successful career in mental health nursing.

You develop the essential knowledge and mental health nursing skills required to care for people and their families in a variety of diverse mental healthcare settings including hospital and community care. During these placements you are required to participate in shift working to include weekends and night duties.

You become a confident and competent skilled practitioner and, ultimately, demonstrate your ability to lead and manage the care of individuals and their families. You develop as a resilient and future-ready nurse with strong professional values, to exercise clinical judgement, challenge inequality, champion diversity and uphold the integrity of the profession whilst delivering high-quality, person-centred compassionate care.

The course content reflects the changing and challenging nature of providing healthcare in the 21st century and the evolving and diverse role of the registered nurse. Leadership is embedded throughout the course, recognising the crucial role nurses play in moving practice forward. The course places a strong focus on you working with students from the child, adult and learning disability fields of nursing to engage in shared learning through experience. In the new nursing curriculum, there is increased emphasis on cognitive and mental health issues impacting on physical health - and vice versa - and the essential need to consider biological, psychological and social care across the age continuum, bridging the existing gaps between healthcare services.

Pre-registration nursing courses are typically three years, so in order to join this two-year master's degree, you are required to submit a Portfolio of Evidence. This portfolio will demonstrate how you have achieved the year 1 requirements of the course (through previous study and/or work experience). You must also provide evidence that you have worked a minimum of 500 hours within a health or social care setting. These two elements are a condition for application and for shortlisting.

Please ensure you read the entry requirements, guidance and complete the Portfolio of Evidence and Declaration (documents available from Entry requirements section) before commencing your course application.

Mental health nursing involves the care of people experiencing mental health problems and their families. As a mental health nurse you become an important member of a multi-professional team working in partnership with adults and children experiencing mental health problems, and their families and carers with a range of complex needs.

Core modules

A Partnership in Care – Valuing the Experts by Experience

You will gain the requisite skills needed to analyse, conduct and assess qualitative research within the applied psychology setting. You will also gain an understanding of key theoretical approaches in designing qualitative research projects as well as practical experience in collecting and analysing qualitative data. The module aims to facilitate the development of a knowledge of and skills in using advanced qualitative research designs, specifically it will develop your knowledge and skills in qualitative research design and methods as applicable to applied psychology at MSc level. You will understand the relationship between theory and practice of interpretative approaches in psychological research, and explore different modes of investigation and analysis employed within these interpretative approaches.

Indicative content:

Theoretical approaches in qualitative research: phenomenological, ethnographic, social constructionist, discursive and narrative approaches
Sampling in qualitative research
Interview design and constructing the data corpus
Analysis of textual and visual data including Grounded Theory; Interpretative Phenomenological analysis; Narrative inquiry; Semiotics; Discursive Psychology; Conversation analysis; Critical discourse analysis & affective textual analysis
Trustworthiness and credibility

The assessment for this module is a 5,000 word qualitative research bid including feasibility study and data analysis (ECA, 100%).

Biopsychosocial Assessment and Decision Making in Mental Health Nursing

This module builds on the skills and knowledge that you have developed in Year 2. It enables you to further develop the complexity of your clinical decision-making skills across the age continuum. It helps develop your skills and knowledge to assess and manage a caseload, lead teams and deliver care for adults, their families and carers in a range of settings.

Contemporary Public Health in Nursing Practice

You gain the knowledge, skills and understanding of the nurse's role in health improvement locally, nationally and globally. Learning alongside master's students from other areas of nursing, you explore current public health legislation and policies which impact on health and wellbeing, emphasising inequalities in health.

Developing a Skilled and Compassionate Mental Health Nurse

This module runs across the academic year and helps develop your nursing skills. It integrates theory gained in the other modules into practice and prepares you for placement.

Leading Innovative Evidence-Based Nursing

Utilising clinical and research related knowledge, you identify a question to research, find an evidence-based solution, and demonstrate the leadership skills that are required to make a successful sustainable change in practice.

The Integrated Evidence-based Decision Making in Mental Health Nursing

This module introduces you to evidence-based integrated decision-making theories and their application to mental health nursing practice in a variety of settings within the context of healthcare.

Modules offered may vary.

The workload is demanding and requires you to be a highly motivated, engaged and self-directed learner. You spend 50% of your time studying the theory, while the other 50% is spent in practice placements.

The course uses a blended learning approach. You get involved in face-to-face learning within university and open distance learning in an environment conducive to your individual learning style. Self-directed study in each module allows you to advance your knowledge, prepare for and reflect upon theory and practice and consolidate your learning. Learning activities within theory hours include lectures, discussions, group activities, seminar presentations, tutorials, skills workshops, experiential learning/simulations, service user-focused activities and e-learning. Some learning is shared with the BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies course. Digital competency and learning through digital-based platforms are an important component of this course.

The teaching week during study blocks is Monday to Friday and may involve some evening sessions. During practice allocations you are required to complete the shift patterns allocated to you by your assessor or supervisor. These include early starts (for example, a shift may start at 7.00am and finish at 8.00pm), night duty and weekend shifts including bank holidays. Practice placements are provided in a range of healthcare-related environments including hospital and community settings. These include experiences with community nursing teams, acute medical and surgical wards, immediate and urgent/complex care environments such as intensive therapy units, accident and emergency. This enables you to explore people-centred care and the nursing and healthcare needs of people with acute and long term conditions. Throughout your placement allocations you have opportunities to gain experience with client groups from other fields of nursing (mental health, learning disabilities and child nursing) to enable you to develop an understanding of the health and nursing needs of people across all fields of practice.

The structure and sequencing of university and placement-based learning means that holidays are fixed – it is not possible to take holidays outside of the set dates. The assessment schedule takes account of placement allocations and study weeks to support time for reflection on practice and preparation for submitting assessments, while providing opportunities for reassessment prior to the end of each year of the course.

You are taught by senior lecturers, specialist practitioners, guest lecturers from practice and â€˜experts by experience'. You are assigned a personal tutor during course induction who provides pastoral support and guidance throughout the course. In addition, the personal tutor monitors your attendance, academic progress and assists you with any difficulties, signposting to other services within the university as and when appropriate. They also provide references for employment at the end of the course.

How you are assessed

A variety of assessment methods consider different learning styles including written assignments, presentations and timed exams. The assessments help you develop the transferable skills sought by managers within the NHS such as delivering presentations, developing a business case, designing and defending posters and action plans, being able to engage in personal reflection and write for publication.

You demonstrate that you have achieved your practice learning outcomes by completing a Practice Assessment Document. This document is mapped against the NMC Standards for Pre-registration Nursing (2018) and recognises the importance of skill development and knowledge in practice.

Essential proficiencies must be met for this course - they include:

numerical calculations in relation to drug administration
physical and manual dexterity to undertake clinical skills
your observational and auditory ability to carry out holistic practical examinations and emergency care
an accurate interpretation of assessment data and written records, such as drug prescription charts and treatment plans, to inform clinical decision making
keeping accurate and legible records.

Our Disability Services team helps students with additional needs resulting from disabilities such as sensory impairment or learning difficulties such as dyslexia.

Disciplines

Nursing & Health

Requirements

Entry Requirements

A bachelor degree with a minimum of 65%, 2.5/4.0 or good

Career

A diverse range of career opportunities are available within the NHS and private sectors in the UK and overseas. This course provides a stepping stone from which you can develop your expertise. You have the opportunity to explore future career and academic development opportunities including becoming an NMC professional registrant, plus possible progression to becoming a non-medical prescriber, an advanced practitioner, alumni member or graduate researcher. Progression to doctoral studies may also be considered on completing this course.

The current employability rate is excellent for nursing graduates. To gain a higher grade and leadership posts within the nursing profession, registrants are required to be qualified to master's level. This course enables you to be future ready and highly employable. Completing this course positions you and may inspire you to pursue an accelerated career pathway towards becoming a future leader, clinical expert or researcher within the nursing profession.

At the beginning of the course you are allocated a home trust and you attend a trust induction before starting your first practice placement. We offer placements that cover a large geographical area to provide diverse and rewarding learning experiences, so you must be prepared to travel to gain experience of the adult journey, independent sector and agency provision. Travel expenses can be claimed if mileage or public transport costs exceed your home to university mileage/costs.

Fee Information

Tuition Fee

GBP 15,000

How to Apply

Applying Online - Information Required to Complete Your Application

Personal Details

- Full Name, including title
- Sex
- Date of Birth
- E-mail Address
- Telephone Number
- Home and Correspondence addresses, including postcode
- Alternative email Addresses
- Country of Permanent Residence or Local Authority
- Country of Birth
- Nationality
- Ethnicity - this data will not be accessible to those making the application decision
- Type of applicant - choose from UK/EU or Overseas
- Who is entering the application - choose from Applicant, University Staff/Overseas Office or Other Third Party
- Disability
- Whether your parents/guardians have Higher Education qualifications
- Details of any previous study or application to this University

Payment of Fees

- Who is paying your fees
- Name and address of your Fee Payer
- Details of any previous funding body and previous course

Overseas Applicants Only

- Date of entry to UK/EU
- Passport Number (if you need a visa)
- Previous UK study, including details of any previous visas, overstays in the UK and visa refusals

University Staff and Office/Agent Applications Only

- School/Office Code
- Agent Code
- Agent Name
- Agent Company
- Reference Number

Qualifications

Qualifications Held (maximum of 6)
(For certain courses e.g. Summer University courses & other short courses, this information is not requested)

- Year and month awarded
- Qualification type, level and subject
- Grade
- Awarding Establishment e.g. College/University Name

Qualifications Pending (maximum of 6)
(For certain courses e.g. Summer University courses & other short courses, this information is not requested)

- Year and month of exam
- Qualification type, level and subject
- Date grade expected
- Awarding Establishment e.g. College/University Name

Highest qualification

Portfolio Details

Foreign Language Courses Only

- Qualifications and experience in chosen language
- where more than one occurence of a courses runs in paralell, indicate which group you wish to join

Professional Qualifications

- Professional/Statutory Body and Registration PIN
- Other course specific professional details as required

School of Health & Social Care courses only

- NHS PIN
- NHS Trust / Practice details
- National Insurance Number
- Assignment/Employee Number
- Line manager name and email address
- Full or part time
- Pay band
- Profession, Staff Group and Job Role
- Other course specific details as required

Social Work Practice Education courses only

- Social Work Registration Number

Erasmus Applications

Details of the Exchange Co-ordinator at Your Home Institution
- Name
- Position
- Email Address

Higher and Degree Apprenticeships

- Unique Learner Number
- National Insurance Number
- *Employer Code
- *Employer Postcode (This is your normal place of work which may be different from the company's main postcode)
- *Number of employees at this postcode
- Highest level qualifications in English language and mathematics

*Your employer should be able to supply this information

Last Two Education Establishments Attended
(For certain courses e.g. Summer University courses & other short courses, this information is not requested)

- Name and address
- Dates from and to
- Full or Part time
- Level of study

English Language Ability
(For certain courses e.g. Summer University courses & other short courses, this information is not requested)

Whether English is your first language

If not

- IELTS - score, date of exam and Test Report Form Number
- Other test - name, score and date of exam

Work Experience (maximum of 2)
(For certain courses e.g. Summer University courses & other short courses, a reduced set of employment information is requested)

- Employers name
- Job title
- Dates from and to
- Full or Part time
- Main responsibilities

Summer & Winter University Courses Only

- Whether you are enrolled or due to enrol on a college or university course
- If so, where and which course
- Whether you are thinking of starting a Higher Education course
- If so, area of interest/study
- Reason for applying to Summer/Winter University

Referee
(For certain courses e.g. Summer University courses & other short courses, this information is not requested)

- Name
- Address
- Other contact details

Note : some course will require two referees, e.g. PHD courses

Personal Statement
(For certain courses e.g. Summer University courses & other short courses, this information is not requested)

Can be uploaded as a document or entered as text

It is suggested that your statement is prepared electronically in advance of starting the application

Enrolment

Some short courses may ask you to provide enrolment information as part of the application. This will require extra details but also means you will not be asked to complete the full on-line registration process at a later date.

This data will not be accessible to those making the application decision

- Type of Term-time Accomodation
- Next of Kin Name
- Next of Kin Telephone Number
- Next of Kin Relationship
- Religious Beliefs
- Criminal Conviction Declaration

Documents currently available for upload
(For certain courses e.g. Summer University courses & other short courses, this option is not available)

- Reference
- Personal Statement
- CV
- Results
- Proof of English Language Qualifications, e.g. IELTS or TOEFL certificate
- Passport
- Previous Visas
- Previous Visa Refusals

For Research courses, the following additional uploads are mandatory

- Research Proposal
- Research Training Document
- Research Personal Statement
- Research Sponsorship/funding letter