Bachelor of Science - Mental Health Nursing

As a mental health nurse, students will care for people in a diverse range of settings, presenting with a variety of mental health challenges. For the BSc version of this course students are not required to complete an honours project or dissertation.

A significant proportion of the population will experience difficulties with their mental health during their lifetime. This course will prepare students to support them in their recovery. Students will gain practical and cognitive skills and will leave the course as a competent and confident practitioner.

Students will learn to work in different settings, such as city hospitals, rural communities, and in people's own homes.

They will spend 50% of their time learning on campus and the other 50% on placements in hospitals and community settings. The placements help students develop the hands-on skills needed to work in healthcare and they will be introduced to the practical elements of mental health nursing in Dundee's clinical skills centre.

Completing this course gives students both an academic qualification and professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.