BSc (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health) Bachelor's degree at Oxford Brookes University

Module will help to prepare you for academic and professional learning. You will develop the skills for academic writing, including your academic integrity. You will be introduced to evidence informed practice and critical thinking. You will select reflective tools and explore the concept of reflection as a tool for developing your self-awareness and learning in the academic and clinical environments.

Module will help you to build confidence in bioscience knowledge that underpins nursing clinical practice. This will include developing your knowledge of anatomy, scientific terminology and physiological principles that underpin health and illness, including microbiology and genetics. You will also look at how medications act on body systems.

Explore the foundational concepts in mental health and well-being that can apply across the lifespan and allow for application in the practice setting of knowledge, policy and interventions. You will look at issues in mental health and well-being relating to: engagement assessment care planning and interventions across a range of disorders encountered in mental health nursing practice. This will be in the context of a mental health recovery / co-production approach. You will study family and soc

Module is your introduction to professional values, professional identity, ethical principles and the culture and practice of nursing. You will study themes such as: team working collaborative practice person and family centred care nursing models. Which will also include the nursing process; within the context of your field of practice. You will also look at caring for people across the lifespan and to meet the specific care needs of people within your chosen field of practice.

Through simulation practice learning and direct patient care, this module will help you to develop a relevant knowledge base, skills and behaviours to fulfil the professional requirements for the mental health nursing programme. Your placement experience for this module will usually include two placements during the year. Completion of this module will contribute to the achievement of Part 1 of your programme.

Research shows that better relationships with patients leads to better outcomes. In this module, you'll gain an insight into how the diverse experiences of people and their families inform all stages of the nursing process, and help them get the most out of therapy from a physical and mental health care perspective. You'll deepen your knowledge from Year 1 of how human connection, communication and self-awareness can be a crucial element in forming a therapeutic relationship with the patient, gr

In this module, you'll be learning how to support mental health through promotion of health and wellbeing. You'll take a compassionate person-centred approach to improving social inclusion that might support the recovery process for people with mental health needs. You'll consider the factors that affect the mental health and the changing health needs of the population, and will learn how vital it is to work in effective partnership with GP's, psychiatrists and carers. By the end of this module

In this module you'll learn how to assess, plan and evaluate the care of patients experiencing mental health issues across the lifespan. You'll train in methodologies in interpreting information to form plans and processes in order to develop the best evidence-based person-centred interventions designed to meet the holistic care needs of those with mental health care needs. You'll train up in the principles of quality improvement strategies and will explore the importance of measuring outcomes i

This module will introduce you to positively engaging with people, their carers, families and other health care practitioners to promote shared-decision making in their health and mental health needs. You'll consider the common treatment approaches such as how improved social inclusion might support the mental health recovery process.