Mental Health
What is Mental Health?
'Mental health' properly describes a sense of well-being: the capacity to live in a resourceful and fulfilling manner, having the resilience to deal with the challenges and obstacles which life presents.
Mental health 'problems' or 'difficulties' are terms that can be used to describe temporary reactions to a painful event, stress or external pressures, or systems of drug or alcohol use, lack of sleep or physical illness; this terminology may also be used to describe long-term psychiatric conditions which may have significant effects on an individual's functioning.
Why study Mental Health?
The Mental Health Nursing Degree Programme will give you the opportunities to study mental health nursing in depth and work with people with a wide range of mental health problems from young people across the lifespan up to older adults.
One main aim is for you to be actively involved in developing therapeutic relationships with service users and carers, this will form the foundations for care and treatment which is often a combined approach utilising psychological, physical, and social interventions with contributions from a range of health and social care professionals. You will experience working in both inpatient and community settings with a number of different specialist teams. Over time you will develop what has been described as Ten Essential Capabilities for Practice, these are;
- Working in Partnership
- Respecting diversity
- Practising ethically
- Challenging inequality
- Promoting recovery
- Identifying people's needs and strengths
- Providing service user centred care
- Making a difference
- Promoting safety and positive risk taking
- Personal development and learning
| Code | Course Title |
| BS-NUR-MH10 | BSc (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health) with Registration |
