BN (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health) Bachelor's degree at the University of Portsmouth

As you gain academic awareness and an understanding of different perspectives, you'll be able to identify your own personal learning needs, formulate a development plan, identify and retrieve evidence and outline the concept of evidence based practice. By summarising evidence about a specific area of practice, you'll learn to critique health inequalities, understand public health, and the delivery of health and social care. When you finish, you'll confidently apply your study skills to key public health issues.

Through lectures about clinical and academic support, you'll develop resilience strategies for the workplace. You'll participate in practice-based learning and demonstrate your expertise and professional attitude – applying classroom theory to real nursing scenarios and cementing your knowledge, values, and skills in nursing practice. This module contributes to meeting NMC Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses. You'll also need to complete the requirements for the 'Passport to Practice' before attending placements.

Learn to view patients as equals when planning, developing and monitoring care and gain knowledge around legal, professional and ethical patient issues that impact nursing scope and boundaries. You'll build your understanding on the benefits and challenges of personalised care through reflective exercises of your values, attitudes and assumptions. By successfully applying your learning, you'll demonstrate NMC standards of proficiencies.

You'll develop the communication skills needed to obtain patient histories and convey assessment findings to teams. You'll demonstrate a strong understanding on anatomical structures and physiological processes, including the major organ systems and learn to perform accurate physical checks, applying your abilities when evaluating and planning care. By gaining knowledge in the science that informs practice, you'll take steps towards meeting NMC and HCPC standards.

You'll continue to participate in practice-based learning and demonstrate your expertise and professional attitude. You'll showcase your knowledge and skills in medicine management as you identify your learning and development needs through an action plan.

By evaluating the challenges faced by interprofessional teams in delivering safe, person-centred care, you'll be prepared to reduce and manage errors and near misses. Reflecting on human factors and behaviors that enable safety, you'll analyse the role of organisations and professional bodies, and how they deliver effective and quality improved care. When you finish, you'll confidently understand the individual and professional responsibilities in delivering safe and effective care as a healthcare professional.

Build on your existing scientific and nursing knowledge and analyse how a range of tools are used to support a mental health diagnosis. Examine how the Mental Health Act can be applied to specific case studies and how mental health services can support people at various stages of their lives. By developing your specialist nursing knowledge, you'll learn to confidently deliver person centred mental health assessments and interventions, as required.

By exploring ethical considerations and selecting appropriate approaches, you'll explore the stages involved in the design and planning of a project in health or social care. You'll discuss the strengths and weaknesses of published evidence that inform practice and consider the barriers, enablers, and contextual factors surrounding evidence based decision-making.

Examine psychological therapies that support recovery while mitigating risks and considering cultural, political and biopsychosocial influences. Through seminars and simulation, you'll develop compassionate care planning abilities and consider how this is is applied to practice. You'll also explore the development of self awareness and the therapeutic use of self and psychodynamic phenomen.

You'll explore collaborative practice models that enhance patient experiences and consider the term 'poly pharmacy' in relation to prescribed medication, potential side effects, illegal substances and alcohol. By examining the relationship between physical and mental health, you'll assess how the Mental Health Nurse's awareness of this ensures that needs are identified and addressed. You'll apply this knowledge during a clinical placement, cementing your understanding of guiding policies and legislation that inform and guide mental health practice.

You'll enhance your skills in care planning, medicines management and emergency priorities – including supervising junior staff. By compassionately managing caseloads and reflecting on patient-centred care, you'll be prepared to take on the responsbilities of a registered nurse and adopt the attitudes and values expected of the role.

Through engaged discussion and critical evaluation, you'll apply ethical, legal, and professional frameworks to manage care efficiently. You'll develop your understanding of clinical governance and quality improvements by examining clinical leadership qualities and how they apply to personalised care. You'll discuss the importance of supporting equality and diversity when responding to legal and professional challenges. With strengthened abilities for reflective practice, clinical judgment, and supportive communication, you'll confidently overcome challenges in team based working and successfully deliver safe care.

You'll get the opportunity to independently analyse a specific area of nursing practice and design a quality improvement project that solves a clinical issue. Drawing on evidence-based practice, you'll generate innovative solutions for enhancing service delivery in your chosen area of interest and build your knowledge on methods that introduce change in clinical practice. You'll be equipped with crucial skills to implement these changes, including critical thinking, project planning, stakeholder engagement, and measuring outcomes. When you finish, you'll have the valuable capabilities to proactively and collaboratively lead and influence change in practice.