BSc (Hons)Registered Nurse (NMC 2018) Degree Apprenticeship - Mental Health

Core modules

Global Health

This module follows on from the public health module in year one and sets the scene for global health themes through the lens of anthropology. It considers migration, war and trauma, communicable and non-communicable disease and the cultural view of mental illness as it presents across the globe.

Inclusive Nursing Care

Through this module you will learn transactional nursing models to implement in practice. You will develop an understanding of the different cultural views and interpretations of illness and how this will manifest within the context of the individual patient.

Nursing Practice 2

On this module you will attend clinical practice areas that provide exposure primarily to mental health nursing, but also adult, learning disabilities and children’s nursing practice. You will also become familiar with the role of the nurse and the importance of professionalism in practice.

Preventing Suicide

This module aims to prepare you to identify and safely support people who are at risk of suicide and self-harm. It will develop your knowledge of at-risk individuals and groups and equip you with practical interventions that can reduce harm and completed suicides.

Vulnerability and Society

This module explores society and the impact of disability or cognitive impairment on an individual. You will explore the policies around safeguarding vulnerable people and interventions to help keep people safe, alongside working in partnership with families, carers and experts by experience.

Core modules

Being Therapeutic

This module builds on the skilled nursing and preventing suicide modules. It develops your skills further in talking therapies and how these can be used to support people to utilise strengths-based approaches, to change and enhance wellbeing.

Developing Others

Through this module you will learn clinical supervision theory and develop your practice to be able to facilitate the supervision of others and to personally utilise supervision.

Leading Nursing Care

This module will prepare you to take on people and organisational lead roles by exploring leadership theory and organisational structures. It will consider how we know when teams and organisations are functioning well and what a world class services delivers to its service users.

Mental Health Nursing Futures

This module requires you to produce a piece of researched work that can add to the extant knowledge or influence the delivery of health and social care. This work will enable you to gain honours degree status.

Nursing Practice 3

During this module you will attend clinical practice areas that provide exposure primarily to mental health nursing, but also adult, learning disabilities and children’s nursing practice. You will also take lead roles that demonstrate management of professionalism in practice.

Preparation for End Point Assessment (EPA)

For successful completion of the apprenticeship, you are required to undertake an end point assessment (EPA). This is organised once your employer is satisfied that you are working consistently at, or above, the level set out in the occupational standards for a registered mental health nurse. This module prepares you to confidently complete the EPA. During the module you will be guided and given preparatory exercises, such as role play, to understand the process and prepare for the assessment.