With the need for mental health nurses ever growing, our course has been specifically designed to develop the skills and knowledge required to help patients lead happy and healthy lives. Benefit from hands-on experience through our exclusive placements as we support you to excel in the field mental health nursing. Delivered in partnership between the university and renowned Birmingham healthcare organisations, this course prepares you for safe and contemporary practice and future employment as a registered mental health nurse. You will learn about a range of topics specific to mental health nursing, as well as covering biological, pharmacological and social sciences, nursing theories, systems, processes and an advancing range of nursing skills that enable you to lead, manage and deliver effective person-centred care. You'll also study medicines management including the completion of safe drug calculations.<br><br>Empathy is an important skill for all nurses to have however, it is absolutely essential within mental health nursing practice. Students must have empathy with how patients, caregivers and the public experience healthcare and knowledge of how this is evaluated and continuously improved is a key component of the course. Emphasis is placed on developing your ability to research and study both independently and with colleagues and to reflect and reason systematically in a critical and evidence-based way.