本课程将为您提供发展与专业精神科护理实践相关的知识和技能的绝好机会，包括独立和批判性思维以及解决问题的能力。这将使您能够根据最新的最佳证据来提供最新的护理服务。该四年制全日制学位课程是与卫生服务主管（南部）（HSE）合作提供的。拥有心理健康护理（荣誉）理学士学位，您将在毕业后立即开始在各种临床环境中以合格的精神病护士的身份开始工作。本课程的主要目的是促进您的个人，智力和专业发展，以满足心理健康护理合格专业人员的角色要求。
Our Mental Health Nursing course will provide you with excellent opportunities to develop knowledge and skills relevant to professional Psychiatric Nursing practice, including independent and critical thinking, and problem solving. It will enable you to deliver nursing care that is up-to-date and based on the best current evidence.<br><br>This four-year full-time degree course is offered in partnership with the Health Service Executive (South) (HSE) and on completion you can apply to register as a Psychiatric Nurse to the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI), the profession's regulatory body. After registration, you will be ready to start work as a qualified psychiatric nurse in a variety of clinical settings. <br><br>The broad aim of the course is to promote your personal, intellectual and professional development to meet the role dimensions of a qualified practitioner of Mental Health Nursing. Each year, you will study modules in both theory and clinical practice. Clinical practice modules require you to be in supervised clinical practice in hospital, community and other healthcare settings for 35 hours per week for a number of weeks each year.<br><br>Theory modules include both nursing, and biological and social science modules, some of which are core (shared with students from other nursing/midwifery branches), while others are discipline-specific (taken by Mental Health Nursing students only).