Mental Health Nursing

Description

UCAS Code: B760

Our nursing courses will enable you to develop the professional attributes you need to be able to practice in a range of settings and deliver skilled, sensitive care to patients and their families. You will also benefit from the wide variety of clinical placements we can offer.

The School of Nursing is part of the College of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing and is one of the largest nursing and midwifery education providers in Scotland. Nursing students come from a wide range of backgrounds and join a large international campus with a reputation for good student facilities and social life.

Our programmes reflect the ever changing face of health care in Scotland and address the political and ethical aspects of heath care provision.

You will gain experience in the clinical skills centres and participate in inter-professional learning with medical students.

Detailed Course Facts

• English

Course Content

The mental health programme prepares nurses to meet the unique and individual needs of clients and carers from childhood to old age.

Students gain an understanding of the complex and fascinating field of mental health and the management of mental health loss. The programme provides students with the ability to assess, manage and treat mental health clients and their carers within a multidisciplinary team.

The practice placements reflect the nature and variety of hospital and community settings for people with a mental health condition.

The nursing curriculum is currently under review, and is due to be approved during 2011.

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.

It will be necessary for some clinical experience to be gained in placements further afield in order to provide students with exposure to a rich and diverse clinical experience.

Requirements

- Minimum Requirements:

SQA Higher: CC+3SG

GCE A-Level: DD+3GCSE

ILC Higher: CC+3Ord

IB Diploma: 24 points with 4, 4 at HL

- Essential Subjects:

English and mathematics at least to SG, GCSE, Ord, SL. Combinations of H/SG, A-L/GCSE or ILC H/Ord must be in 5 different subjects.

- Note:

Satisfactory reference, interview performance, health screening and criminal record search are part of the selection process for all courses.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Dundee.

Accreditation

Professional Accreditation:

All programmes provide both an academic and professional qualification; registration as a nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.