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Mental Health Nursing Mental health nurses work with individuals and their families across a wide range of settings in both community and in-patient services. They also work as part of a multi- professional team and in partnership with diverse client groups and their carers.
Students will learn about a variety of mental health conditions, including: drug and alcohol abuse, schizophrenia, the dementias, depression, eating disorders, personality disorders, and child and adolescent mental health problems. Practice placements reflect the diversity of taught subjects, and students will spend half of their time practising in community settings, day units, in-patient services, and specialist settings such as forensic and child and family services.
At the centre of the mental health nursing programme is the promotion of compassionate and person-centred nursing care. We offer a curriculum which recognises that mental health nursing is neither solely a science nor an art, but a creative combination of both. The programme focuses on the therapeutic relationship between the nurse and the client and the skills required for evidence-based practice.
Children and Young People’s Nursing This is concerned with the needs of children from birth to adolescence and through health to ill-health. Pivotal to our philosophy is the notion of family – centred care. We recognise our responsibility to work in equal partnership with parents and carers. Our programme also promotes the ‘caring aspect’ of the field. We recognise that ‘caring’ has the capacity to improve the social, mental and physical well-being of children and their families.
This field provides an educational experience that concentrates on developing the professional skills, knowledge and attitudes required by nurses to deliver a child and family-centred service tailored to the unique needs of each child. The programme promotes scholarship and reflective practice with students encouraged to develop responsibility for their student journey from novice to graduate nurse.
The practice component provides the opportunity for mentored clinical practice in different settings. These include children’s wards, health visitor, school nurse, child development centres, accident and emergency, children’s respite unit and high dependency unit. These practice learning environments are principally in NHS Tayside and NHS Fife with others in Forth Valley and Highland.
teaching and assessment
Assessment is split equally between assessment of theory and assessment of practice to reflect the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirement that 50% of the programme is undertaken in practice. Assignments are designed to align with module outcomes, content and teaching strategies.
Additionally the range of strategies covers the spectrum of student learning styles. Assessment of theory uses a variety of strategies including essay, report, literature review, poster presentation, examination, critical incident analysis, care plans and learning packages. Paper-based and online formats are used for some essays and examinations. Practice assessment is competency-based, with assessment undertaken by the student’s mentor. Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is used to provide a link between theoretical and practice-based assessment.
The nursing curriculum was one of the first approved in the UK under the new NMC standards. Throughout the three years you will develop the nursing skills and knowledge applicable to all fields of nursing, with an increased focus on your chosen field as the programme progresses.
Practice placements are provided in Tayside and Fife and students are allocated the majority of their placements in the vicinity of their term-time address. Some clinical experience is also gained in placements further afield in order to provide students with exposure to a rich and diverse clinical experience. In particular, child nursing students are required to have placements in Forth Valley and Inverness.
programme content • typical degree programme example BSc Nursing degree
Level 1 > Nature of nursing 1 > Physical health and wellbeing > Mental health and wellbeing
> Adult nursing 1; or Mental health nursing 1; or Child nursing 1
> Skills and practice 1 Level 2
> Adult nursing 2; or Mental health nursing 2; or Child nursing 2
> Adult nursing 3; or Mental health nursing 3; or Child nursing 3
> Nature of nursing 2
> Adult nursing 4; or Mental health nursing 4; or Child nursing 4
> Skills and practice 2 Level 3
> Adult nursing 5; or Mental health nursing 5; or Child nursing 5
> Nature of nursing 3
> Adult nursing 6; or Mental health nursing 6; or Child nursing 6
> Skills and practice 3
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