MSc
Nursing (Pre-registration - Mental Health)

Module Overview

Develop Expertise in Managing Complex Patient Needs

As part of your MSc Nursing programme, the Coordinating Complex Mental Health Care module is designed to enhance your ability to assess, plan, and manage care for individuals with multifaceted health needs. This field-specific module provides you with the advancing knowledge and clinical skills required to deliver high-quality, person-centred care in complex and dynamic healthcare environments.

What to Expect in This Module

Resilience and Emotional Intelligence – Develop the ability to navigate challenging situations with confidence and emotional awareness.

Decision-Making in Complex Situations – Understand the influences on judgments and decisions in routine, complex, and high-pressure scenarios.

Supporting Vulnerable Populations – Provide compassionate care to individuals at all stages of life who are emotionally or physically vulnerable.

Interpreting Clinical Investigations – Learn to assess and interpret results from routine tests and examinations.

Managing Co-Morbidities and Complex Needs – Address the demands of meeting both nursing and social care needs in complex cases.

Effective Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration – Recognise when and how to refer individuals to other professionals or services for additional support.

Advanced Pharmacology Knowledge – Develop the ability to identify medication effects, allergies, drug sensitivities, side effects, contraindications, adverse reactions, and prescribing errors.

Safe Transition of Care – Ensure effective discharge planning and the safe transfer of individuals between care settings.

Leadership and Delegation – Prioritise, delegate, and assign care responsibilities effectively in dynamic healthcare environments.

Person-Centred Nursing in Integrated Care Settings – Address the complexities of providing safe, effective, and person-centred care across integrated healthcare settings.

Evaluating the Quality of Care – Monitor and assess the effectiveness and quality of complex care services.

Promoting Independence and Minimising Unnecessary Interventions – Enable individuals to maintain optimal independence while reducing unnecessary medical interventions.

Ensuring Equitable Access to Healthcare – Advocate for fair and accessible healthcare services for all patients.

Risk Management and Quality Improvement – Identify risks and implement proactive measures to improve care quality and patient safety.

How This Module Supports Your Development By completing this module, you will refine your ability to coordinate care for individuals with complex health needs, ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate mental health nursing practice. You will develop the expertise to act as a role model for others and respond proactively to signs of deterioration or distress. This module is a crucial component of your MSc Nursing journey, equipping you with the skills and knowledge to lead and innovate in complex care coordination.

Module Overview

Welcome to Your First Step Towards Nursing Excellence

As part of your MSc Nursing programme, the Essential Nursing Practice module is designed to provide you with the essential knowledge and skills required for high-quality, person-centred care. This blended-field module will build on your clinical, professional, and technological experiences, preparing you for nursing practice in a variety of healthcare settings.

What to Expect in This Module

Innovative Learning Approach – Engage with a combination of lectures, seminars, and clinical skills training, both face-to-face and through cutting-edge digital platforms.

Comprehensive Skill Development – Enhance your numeracy, literacy, digital, and technological proficiency, all crucial for contemporary nursing practice.

Person-Centred Care Focus – Develop your ability to communicate effectively across all age groups and support patients through shared decision-making and compassionate care.

Robust Clinical Training – Gain hands-on experience in essential procedures, including clinical observations, sample collection, wound care, mobility support, infection prevention, and medicines management.

Ethical and Legal Considerations – Build confidence in risk assessments, safeguarding protocols, health and safety legislation, and supporting patients with mental capacity considerations.

Holistic Wellbeing Approach – Learn to promote good sleep, nutrition, hydration, personal hygiene, oral care, and self-care while upholding patient dignity and privacy.

Medicines Administration Training – Gain an introduction to safe and effective medication management, including enteral and parenteral routes.

How This Module Supports Your Development By completing this module, you will develop the critical skills needed to provide evidence-based, high-quality care. The combination of theoretical knowledge and practical training will prepare you for the challenges of modern nursing, enabling you to start delivering safe and effective interventions with increasing confidence.

Preparing for Success To get the most out of this module, engage actively in all learning activities, make use of digital resources, and apply your learning in clinical practice. This is an essential step in your MSc Nursing journey, helping you to advance your professional development and enhance patient outcomes.

Module Overview

Welcome to Your Next Step in Nursing Excellence

As part of your MSc Nursing programme, the Nursing for Mental Health module is designed to equip you with the knowledge and clinical skills necessary to provide high-quality, evidence-based care for people across diverse mental healthcare settings. This field-specific module will enhance your understanding of human health, illness, and the complexities of professional nursing practice.

What to Expect in This Module

Professional Readiness – Understand the demands of professional practice, build resilience, and develop strategies to manage uncertainty in healthcare environments.

Recognising and Responding to Vulnerability – Identify signs of vulnerability, assess risks to health, and implement strength-based approaches to empower individuals.

Comprehensive Health Assessment – Conduct person-centred nursing assessments, develop appropriate care plans, and monitor their effectiveness.

Applied Biosciences and Pharmacology – Gain a solid foundation in human anatomy, physiology, homeostasis, genomics, and pharmacology to inform your nursing interventions.

Mental and Physical Health Awareness – Recognise and support individuals with commonly encountered mental, physical, behavioural, and cognitive conditions, including self-harm and suicidal ideation.

Clinical Skills – Perform venepuncture, cannulation, chest auscultation, neurological observations, and routine ECG investigations, interpreting normal and commonly encountered abnormal results.

Understanding Increasingly Complex Conditions – Understand the causes, implications, and treatment of a range of common health conditions, including sepsis, and effectively manage commonly encountered medical devices.

Holistic and Therapeutic Interventions – Utilise solution-focused therapies, reminiscence therapies, cognitive behavioural therapy techniques, play therapy, and positive behaviour support approaches.

Effective Communication and Collaboration – Work in partnership with patients, families, and carers to support informed decision-making and provide clear, verbal, digital, or written information.

Pain and Symptom Management – Minimise discomfort through evidence-based interventions, including oxygen administration, catheter management, and continence product support.

How This Module Supports Your Development This module will strengthen your ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care in a range of mental health settings. Through interactive learning and practical application, you will develop the skills needed to provide safe, effective, and person-centred care for people with diverse mental health needs. This module is an essential step in your MSc Nursing journey, preparing you to lead and innovate in mental health nursing, and supporting your development as a skilled and compassionate nurse.

Module Overview

Transforming Nursing Through Global Perspectives

The Nursing in a Global Context module equips you with the knowledge and skills to critically examine nursing from a global perspective. With a strong emphasis on decolonisation and inter-professional learning, this blended-field module challenges existing healthcare structures and promotes culturally competent, inclusive, and equitable care across diverse populations.

What to Expect in This Module

Promoting Health and Preventing Illness – Explore approaches to healthy lifestyles, health promotion, protection, and improvement, with an emphasis on preventing ill health.

Understanding Global Health Disparities – Examine epidemiology, demography, genomics, and the wider determinants of health, illness, and wellbeing.

Addressing Health Inequalities – Critically assess global patterns in health and wellbeing outcomes, considering the social, economic, and political factors that drive health disparities.

Behavioural and Social Influences on Health – Investigate the impact of smoking, substance and alcohol use, sexual behaviours, diet, and exercise on physical, mental, and behavioural health.

Evidence-Based Public Health Interventions – Analyse the principles and effectiveness of health screening programmes, immunisation, infection prevention and control, and antimicrobial stewardship.

Decolonisation in Nursing – Engage in critical discussions on the legacy of colonialism in healthcare and nursing, exploring strategies to decolonise education, practice, and policy.

Inter-Professional Learning and Collaboration – Develop skills to work effectively in partnership, across professions, and with agencies to improve patient outcomes and public health.

Health Legislation and Policy – Gain insight into UK health and social care policies, devolved legislatures, health economics, and the impact of current and future policy developments.

Unconscious Bias and Social Determinants of Health – Reflect on the role of unconscious bias in healthcare delivery and strategies to mitigate its effects.

Organisational Change and Political Awareness – Understand the role of nurses in shaping public policy, driving organisational change, and advocating for equitable health services.

How This Module Supports Your Development This module challenges you to think critically about the structures and policies that shape nursing and healthcare on a global scale. Through inter-professional learning and an emphasis on decolonisation, you will develop the skills needed to lead inclusive and culturally competent nursing practices. This blended-field module is an opportunity to expand your perspective, refine your critical thinking, and contribute to meaningful change in nursing and global healthcare.

Module Overview

The aim of this module is to provide you with the opportunity to undertake practice learning in a safe, supported, and appropriate environment in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018) standards.

During this module, you will have practice learning opportunities that allow you to ‘meet the professional values, communication and relationship management skills and nursing skills to meet specific aspects of the standards of proficiency for registered nurses’ (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2018, p.13).

You can attend placements where you will be a supernumerary member of the team. You will be supported by registered professionals who will act as practice supervisors, by non-registered colleagues, and the multi-disciplinary team. A Registered Nurse will be assigned to work with you as your Practice Assessor and will work with you to ensure completion of the practice assessment document.

You will be supported by the University team and an allocated Academic Assessor to develop your professional skills and attributes.

Your allocated practice placements during Part 1 will allow you to observe, participate and assist in the provision of evidence-based care. By the end of your Part 1 placements, you should demonstrate a minimum level of skills, knowledge, and behaviours, described as: Guided participation in care and performing with increasing confidence and competence.

Module Overview

The aim of this module is to provide you with the opportunity to undertake practice learning in a safe, supported, and appropriate environment in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018) standards.

During this module, you can have practice learning opportunities that allow you to ‘meet the professional values, communication, and relationship management skills and nursing skills to meet specific aspects of the standards of proficiency for registered nurses’ (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2018, p.13).

You are able to attend a placement where you will be a supernumerary member of the team. You will be supported by registered professionals who will act as practice supervisors, by non-registered colleagues, and the multi-disciplinary team. A Registered Nurse will be assigned to you as your Practice Assessor and will work with you to ensure completion of the practice assessment document.

You will be supported by the University team and an allocated Academic Assessor to develop your professional skills and attributes.

Your allocated practice placement during Part 2 will allow you to observe, participate, and assist in the provision of evidence-based care. By the end of your Part 2 placement, you should be able to demonstrate a minimum level of skills, knowledge, and behaviours, described as: Active participation in care with minimal guidance and performing with increasing confidence and competence.

Module Overview

The aim of this module is to provide you with the opportunity to undertake practice learning in a safe, supported, and appropriate environment in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018) standards.

During this module, you will have practice learning opportunities that allow you to ‘meet the professional values, communication, relationship management skills, and nursing skills to meet specific aspects of the standards of proficiency for registered nurses’ (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2018, p.13).

You can attend placements where you will be a supernumerary member of the team. You will be supported by registered professionals who will act as practice supervisors, by non-registered colleagues, and the multi-disciplinary team. A Registered Nurse will be assigned to work with you as your Practice Assessor and will work with you to ensure completion of the practice assessment document.

You will be supported by the University team and an allocated Academic Assessor to develop your professional skills and attributes.

Your allocated practice placements during Part 3 will allow you to observe, participate and assist in the provision of evidence-based care. By the end of your Part 3 placements, you should demonstrate a high level of skills, knowledge, and behaviours, described as: Practising independently with minimal supervision and leading and co-ordinating care with confidence.

Module Overview

Unlock Your Potential: Empowering Evidence-Based Decision Making in Health and Social Care

As part of your MSc Nursing journey, this dynamic, dissertation-style module will immerse you in the world of research and evidence-based practice, shaping you into a confident and capable researcher. Prepare to challenge your thinking, enhance your skills, and make a tangible impact on health and social care outcomes.

Why This Module Matters:

Influence Practice: Understand how research influences decision-making in healthcare and social care practice, giving you the tools to drive positive change in your professional field.

Practical Application: Learn to apply cutting-edge methodologies and research approaches that are directly relevant to today’s evolving healthcare environment. This isn’t just theory—it’s how you’ll make a real difference.

Fill the Gaps: Learn how to identify research gaps and areas ripe for further exploration, positioning yourself as a leader who drives forward knowledge and innovation.

Philosophy and Ethics: Explore the essential philosophies and ethical considerations in research, with a focus on the importance of reflexivity as you develop your identity as a researcher.

Data Mastery: Develop practical skills in gathering, organizing, and analysing data to ensure your findings are robust, accurate, and impactful.

Disseminate Your Findings: Learn the key strategies for disseminating your research to a wide audience, ensuring your findings have the broadest possible impact on your practice, your peers, and the healthcare community.

Audit, Evaluation, and Improvement: Dive into the world of audit, service evaluation, and service improvement, discovering how research can be used to enhance care quality and outcomes.

This blended-field module will arm you with the tools to contribute to the evidence that shapes the future of nursing and social care. This engaging and high-impact module will prepare you to approach your nursing career with the confidence of a researcher, ready to shape policy, drive improvements, and deliver better outcomes.

Module Overview

Building Research Skills for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice

The Research Methods module is designed to equip you with essential research skills that underpin evidence-informed nursing and interprofessional practice in the UK. Through a structured approach, you will develop the ability to critically appraise research, ensuring that your clinical decisions are informed by the best available evidence.

What to Expect in This Module

Developing Research Questions – Learn how to formulate focused and relevant research questions that address key nursing and healthcare issues.

Systematic Literature Searching – Gain the ability to search academic databases efficiently and review literature in a structured manner.

Theoretical Frameworks – Understand how theoretical models guide research design and inform nursing practice.

Research Methodologies – Explore qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research, and their applications in nursing and the wider healthcare setting.

Study Design and Sampling Methods – Examine different research designs and sampling techniques to ensure robust, ethical research.

Data Collection Techniques – Develop skills in collecting and managing research data through interviews, surveys, observations, and other methods.

Ensuring Rigour in Research – Understand the principles of reliability, validity, and trustworthiness in research.

Data Analysis Approaches – Learn how to analyse and interpret research findings effectively.

Statistical Tools in Research – Gain an introduction to key statistical tools and techniques used in quantitative research.

How This Module Supports Your Development This blended-field module will strengthen your ability to engage with and critique research in clinical practice, ensuring that you are prepared to contribute to the advancement of nursing knowledge. By developing strong research skills, you will be better equipped to deliver high-quality, evidence-informed care and support improvements in healthcare outcomes. This module provides an opportunity to enhance your analytical skills, expand your understanding of research methodologies, and build confidence in using research to inform nursing practice.