Professional Practice in Mental Health Nursing

Description

This course adopts a blended learning approach, combining e-learning with some academic facilitation which may be face to face.

Assessment will take the form of a 3000 word written report, a five minute audio/visual presentation to academic and specifically invited healthcare colleagues and a 1500 word reflective account.

What are the career options with a degree in BSc Professional Practice in Mental Health Nursing?

This course will enable staff to top up their qualification to degree level and therefore maximise opportunities for career progression.

In 2010, the Nursing and Midwifery Council amended its required minimum outcome for pre-registration nurse education to degree level study. As a result, employers will increasingly require their nurses from band five upwards to hold a degree qualification as a minimum. This course will enable staff to top up their qualification to degree level and therefore maximise opportunities for career progression.

Why study BSc Professional Practice in Mental Health Nursing at Middlesex?

This course offers qualified practising mental health nurses the opportunity to study modules and qualify at degree level. Thse modules include clinical and /or professional practice-related inquiry methods, allowing you to engage in clinical and/or healthcare practice development. You will engage in professionally relevant work based/practice based enquiry and project work leading to personal and/or organisational professional practice development.

If you have a Cert HE and Dip HE qualification, such as Diploma Advanced in Nursing, this course will provide you with 60 credits at level 6, so that you achieve the 360 credits required for an honours degree.

The course also enables registered nurses who have engaged in CPD studies following qualification to gain an undergraduate honours degree.

Upon completion of the course you will be able to work with members of a healthcare team to identify professional /clinical / workplace nursing practice and service development opportunities and design and develop work based projects aimed at improving and developing clinical /professional/work place nursing practice. You will also be able to gather evidence and information and coherently construct and communicate a persuasive argument to healthcare colleagues and academic staff in support of a specific service or professional practice development or change.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline September 2015 is 6pm on 15th January 2015 Tuition fee

• UK/EU Student

Please contact the course leader

• Fees International

International Student N/A

Visit Programme Website Start date January,September 2015 Duration full-time 12 months Languages Take an IELTS test

• English

Delivery mode Blended Educational variant Part-time Intensity Flexible Part-time variant Flexible Structure Fully structured Student interaction Individual work/assignments (with online group discussions) Teacher support Continuous support with feedback on request More information Go To The Course Website

Course Content

What will you study?

The programme comprises two thirty credit work based learning modules:

• WBS 3630 - Professional Practitioner Inquiry

• WBS 3730 - Negotiated Work Based Learning Project

This module aims to provide the opportunity to develop projects, inquiries and/or other work-based activities that are designed to improve or inform areas of your own or others' clinical or professional practice in nursing and healthcare. You will explore and critically discuss your work/practice and demonstrate the learning gained, as well as the development of your professional/clinical knowledge and skills. The learning will be located within your own localised and specialised work/practice area.

The themes of projects, inquiries and/or other work-based activities are negotiated and can be related to individual clinical/professional or healthcare team practice development and/or wider healthcare organisational development aims.

Learning, teaching and assessment

This course adopts a blended learning approach, combining e-learning with some academic facilitation which may be face to face.

Assessment will take the form of a 3000 word written report, a five minute audio/visual presentation to academic and specifically invited healthcare colleagues and a 1500 word reflective account.

Requirements

In order to be accepted onto the programme applicants must be registered nurses with a minimum of 300 credits of which 60 must be at level 6. These credits will be pre-accredited into the degree pathway.

On-going academic /CPD advice will be offered by the Programme Leader to any nurse who wishes to access the BSc (Hons) Professional Practice but who still needs to complete 300 credits in CPD studies prior to commencing the award.

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 Middlesex University.