MSc Nursing (Pre-registration - Mental Health)

at University of Lincoln

Module Overview

Health improvement is a term used to describe the work done with individuals and communities to enable and encourage healthy lifestyle choices to be made regardless of health and social circumstances. It is one of the three key domains of public health practice.

This second year module has been designed to extend students knowledge of public health policy and practice and provide the opportunity to explore how psychological, social, behavioural and environmental factors influence health, illness and healthcare and how these shape the advice given to patients to improve their own health and the health of others around them. Students will be encouraged to question the ethical basis of and effectiveness of health improvement practice in the current health and social care context from global, national and local perspectives.

Master's Level
 

• Applied Health Improvement (Core)
• Assessing needs, planning and coordinating care (L7) (Core)
• Being an Accountable Professional Registered Nurse (Mental Health) (L7) (Core)
• Essential Interprofessional Practice (Core)
• Leadership and Supervision in Nursing Practice (Core)
• Managing complex care (L7) (Core)
• Providing and evaluating care (L7) (Core)
• Service Evaluation for Clinical Practice (Core)
• Service Transformation (Core)

Applicants should hold an honours degree at 2.2 classification or above.

Normally 3 GCSEs at grade 4 (C) including English, Maths and Science, or equivalent qualifications. These GCSEs must be obtained prior to submitting an application. Applicants who completed an Access to HE in Health and Social Care will be required to provide evidence of undertaking science units at level 3.

Evidence of experience in a practice setting to include 650 hours of care related practice experience should be completed prior to application and discussed within your personal statement. Documentation will need to be provided and verified within one month of interview (if successful). Please see below for more information.

Certificates and degree transcripts of all previous qualifications will need to be provided before any offers are confirmed.

Other requirements include:

IELTS 7.0 with no element below 5.5.

Advice for interview:
 

• Successful performance at an interview.
• Knowledge of contemporary health and social care issues, and the role of the Mental Health Nurse in providing healthcare.
• Understanding of written material and can communicate clearly and accurately in written and spoken English.
• "Settled residential status" in the United Kingdom in line with the requirements of the 1971 Immigration Act.
• Resident in the United Kingdom for at least three years.
• All students will be required to sign the subject-specific Fitness to Practise Code of Conduct on entry, details of which will be forwarded with an offer letter.
• Satisfactory completion of an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) (formerly the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB). International applicants need to obtain a recent criminal record certificate from their home country and ensure this is still valid by the date of enrolment.
• Entry on to the course is subject to meeting the requirements of a profession specific occupational health screening.

Home    
£8,100

International    
£16,000

Our first cohort of Nursing students graduated and registered with the NMC in January 2022. All went on to work in a wide range of healthcare settings in both community and acute services within Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and further afield in Norfolk, Bristol, and Cambridge in posts such as community mental health nurse and in secure mental health hospitals and inpatient mental health wards.