Programme aims
Prepare students to act in the best interests of people, accountable for providing mental health nursing care that is person-centred, safe and compassionate
Prepare students to support, improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of people, communities and populations
Prepare students to assess and prioritise a person’s nursing needs and plan appropriate evidence-based care
Prepare students to provide and evaluate evidence-based nursing care interventions and procedures.
Prepare students to lead and manage nursing care effectively, work as part of a team and appropriately delegate care
Prepare students to continuously improve the safety and quality of nursing care, enhancing people's experiences of services and optimising health outcomes.
Prepare students to coordinate and lead complex care as a mental health nurse across organisations and settings
Prepare students to embody ethical principles of social justice and courageous advocacy in the delivery of nursing care
Learning outcomes and learning, teaching and assessment methods
On successful completion of the programme a graduate should demonstrate knowledge and skills as follows:
A: Knowledge and understanding
A1: Fundamental knowledge of the evidence bases applied to person-centred practices and proficiencies in nursing care, including its features, gaps, uncertainties and ambiguities.
A2: Fundamental knowledge of the evidence bases applied to critical public health, welfare, wellbeing and the socio-political determinants of health
A3: Fundamental knowledge, principles and practices of compassionate human interactions, relationships and relationship-based therapies applied to adult nursing
A4: Fundamental knowledge of the evidence bases associated with clinical leadership and management strategies that enable the coordination of complex person-centred care
A5: Fundamental knowledge of the evidence bases associated with the nursing processes of assessment, planning, providing and evaluating care
A6: Fundamental understanding that different forms of knowledge (scientific, experiential, political, professional, organisational and cultural) contribute evidence to nursing practices and decision-making
A7: Fundamental knowledge and application of the ethical principles of social justice, advocacy and accountability as the foundation for all nursing practices
Learning methods
A1-A7 are achieved through instructional methods ( interactive lectures, seminars, flipped classroom); critical reflection methods (lived experience seminars, digital stories, reflective tutorials, action learning sets and peer supervision); and participatory and experiential methods (practice-based learning and simulated practice)
Assessment methods
A1 and A6 are assessed using essays and case studies, practice assessment documents (PADs), written exam, oral exam, multiple mini interviews (MMIs), reflective journal and service improvement project.
A2 is assessed using essays and service improvement project
A3 is assessed using practice assessment documents (PADs) and multiple mini interviews (MMIs)
A4-A5 are assessed using essays and case studies, practice assessment documents (PADs) and multiple mini interviews (MMIs)
A7 is assessed using essays, analysis of digital stories, and service improvement project
B: Intellectual and cognitive skills
B1: Adopt an inquiring stance to all aspects of nursing practice, education and leadership
B2: Locate and synthesise evidence from a range of sources in order to make evidence-based person-centred decisions
B3: Manage complex ethical and professional issues, making informed judgements on matters that may not explicitly be addressed within existing codes, standards and protocols
B4: Develop creative ideas for service improvements that are person-centred, participative and reflect contemporary health care practices
B5: Engage in descriptive and critical reflection that integrates knowledge from different sources to inform personal development, professional practices, and service delivery
Learning methods
B1-B5 are achieved through lived experience seminars and workshops, scenario-based inquiry, action learning sets, structured reflection in practice, simulated practice, supported and independent self-directed learning, personal and group reflection on placement experience.
Assessment methods
B1-B3 and B5 are assessed using essays and case studies, practice assessment documents (PADs), reflective journal and multiple mini interviews (MMIs)
B4 is assessed using a service improvement project
C: Practical skills
C1: Safely and effectively demonstrate proficiency in practices, therapies, procedures and techniques that address the person-centred needs of people using nursing services
C2: Actively seek and value feedback from service users, peers, colleagues and others to inform personal development and professional activities
C3: Demonstrate independence, autonomy and intiative in professional activities, leading creative responses to clinical situations identified within nursing practice
C4: Be a champion for social justice, demonstrating advocacy with people and assertively challenge practices that are unsafe, unsatisfactory and ineffective
Learning methods
C1-C4 are achieved through participative learning strategies in practice-based learning and simulated practice
C2 is also achieved through supervising peers and colleagues
C2-C4 are achieved through lived experience seminars and workshops
Assessment methods
C1 is assessed using practice assessment documents (PADs) and multiple mini interviews (MMIs)
C2-C4 is assessed using case studies, practice assessment documents (PADs), reflective journal and service improvement project
D: Key skills
D1: i) Develop skilled, relationship-based, context-appropriate communication when interacting with others in clinical and non-clinical situations, ii) Listen to, read and acknowledge alternative perspectives, iii) Communicate persuasive and engaging arguments in academic and professional situations.
D2: Demonstrate proficiency in digital technologies by:
i) Using the the Internet
ii) Accessing information via the library, professional bodies, placement providers
iii) Use appropriate data analysis packages, and
iv) Use audiovisual presentation tools and techniques
D3: Demonstrate applied health numeracy by: i) Interpreting statistical information, ii) Using statistics to analyse data, and iii) Using software packages to support data analysis.
D4: Identify and reflectively analyse problems emerging from theory and practice
D5: i) Motivate and engender partnership working, ii) Demonstrate a strong awareness of personal limitations and scope of practice, iii) Take responsibility for one's own work and significant responsibility for the work of others, iv) Respect and promote inclusivity and diversity.
D6: Demonstrate an aptitude for continuing to advance knowledge, understanding and skills in line with identified learning needs; Identify, conceptualise and define new and abstract ideas within professional practice/education/management
Learning methods
D1 is achieved in group work, lived expereince seminars, action learning sets, practice-based learning, simulated practice, and tutorials.
D2 commences at induction and is achieved through structured workshops and seminars, flipped classroom, and structured self-directed learning
D3 is achieved using seminars where students present and analyse work, tutorials, simuledted practice and practice-based learning
D4 is achieved using authentic scenario-based inquiry, simulated practice, and practice-based learning
D5 is achieved using collaborative group work, action learning sets, seminars, simulated practice, prqactice-based learning and project co-design in service improvement
D6 is achieved through feedback on coursework, tutorial support, action learning sets, descriptive and critical reflections on practice-based learning
Assessment methods
D1 and D4 are assessed using essays and case studies, practice assessment documents (PADs), written exam, oral exam, multiple mini interviews (MMIs), reflective journal and service improvement project
D2 is assessed using essays and case studies, and service improvement project
D3 is assessed using a health numeracy exam, medicines management assessments in practice assessment documents (PADs), multiple mini interviews (MMIs), and presentation and manipulation of data in relfective case study
D5 is assessed using essays and case studies, practice assessment documents (PADs), multiple mini interviews (MMIs), reflective journal and service improvement project
D6 is assessed using reflective case studies, practice assessment documents (PADs) and reflective journal