Master of Mental Health Nursing
Bachelor's degree
In Telford
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Bachelor's degree
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Location
Telford
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Duration
2 Years
This demanding route is designed to meet the needs of highly motivated graduates, looking to rapidly advance their career within the nursing profession. This course has been closely developed with local Trust partners to reflect the increasing and rapidly changing requirements in patient care provision. The MMHN (PG) will create autonomous nurses with the clinical and leadership skills to synthesise data that will optimise the best possible patient care for people with mental illness.
The course will be split 50% in a clinical practice environment and 50% in academic setting of the University. The MMHN (PG) leads to professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), as well as a Master’s degree. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to practice as a Registered Nurse in the field of Mental Health Nursing.
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All candidates must hold an Honours degree (Bachelor) at 2:2 or above.
Candidates must have GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent) in Mathematics and English.
Applicants who are not from the UK are required to have an English Language Qualification IELTS level score of 7 or above.
Post graduate applicants will have to demonstrate a minimum of 770hrs experience (paid or unpaid) in a health care setting in order to establish caring attributes, commitment and resilience for a career in nursing of prior learning.
Those meeting the entry requirements may be shortlisted for a values-based...
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Subjects
- Patient Care
- Health nursing
- Mental Health
Course programme
The two year full time course will focus on the acquisition of nursing skills in order to manage safe effective evidence based care to patients, through a range of relevant clinical placements, whilst undertaking the shift patterns of professional nurses. Students will be supported by appropriately qualified and inspirational mentors. This will facilitate the development of nurses that have advanced caring skills and the ability to improve quality and drive health care services.
The development of complex mental health nursing practice will be acquired from a variety of community and acute settings reflecting the key drivers within the health sector. Academic mastery will be cultivated through problem based learning approaches with opportunities for skills simulation in our laboratories. Learning will be supported by academic experts and researchers in the field of nursing and interprofessional learning with other healthcare disciplines. This course would also be suitable for existing graduate NMC registrants wishing to undertake a 2nd registration at Masters Level in the field of mental health nursing.
Students wishing to undertake this course will be self-funding or apply for a student loan.
Master of Mental Health Nursing