Mental Health Nursing (pre-registration) Coventry University

Overview

Mental Health Nursing (pre-registration) at Coventry University trains you to build therapeutic relationships, promote patient involvement in decisions, and address psychological, physical and social needs while ensuring safeguarding.

• This course aims to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and behaviours to independently address diverse mental health needs across the lifespan. It prepares you to analyse, develop, and deliver effective care to individuals, focusing on mental health and wellbeing, physiological and social needs with an emphasis on evidence-informed practice, care, and compassion.
• Learn the clinical and personal skills required to provide autonomous, compassionate, and person-centred care. Learn to collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams as a mental health nurse to coordinate safe, evidence-based care.
• Through recognition of your previous care experience and completion of four practice placements organised by Coventry University during your course, you should achieve 50 per cent practical placement training needed for registration as a mental nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).2,5

• Study one module at a time, with five weeks of learning followed by one week of assessment per module.

Career opportunities

Successful completion of this course is a strong indication to potential employees that you have both the ability and the academic characteristics required for working in a variety of clinical settings.