A critical appraisal of an aspect of the professional role of the registered mental health nurse. This will include the identification of an action plan to address your personal and professional development needs - weighting 100% (all LO's) 8000 words

Formative Assessment:
Feedback from session lecturers
Group tutorials

The aim of this module is to provide you with the knowledge and skills to assist in your transition from student to registered nurse.

- Characteristics of professional practice and negligence
- Continual professional development including self assessment, critical reflection, preceptorship and clinical supervision
- Recognising and challenging health inequality, stigma and discrimination, enhancing cultural competence
- Working independently, awareness of own limitations, seeking help and referring to other professionals
- National and locally driven health and social care policies, strategies with specific emphasis on the care of mental health across the lifespan in primary, secondary and tertiary care settings
- Promoting collaborative working with service users, families, carers, other health and social care professionals, groups, communities and organisations
- Role modelling
- Presenting findings
- Managing the conveyance of bad news
- Analysis of factors contributing to compassionate and dignified care including the effect of own values, principles and assumptions
- Identifying and interpreting research in order to challenge ineffective practices and implement change
- Transition from student to registered nurse - accountability, prioritisation and delegation and supervision of others
- Leadership and management theories and styles including using emotional intelligence
- Leading and developing teams, team working, negotiating with others
- Time and resource management
- Complaints management
- Managing challenging situations including whistle blowing, conflict resolution
- Risk assessment and risk management
- Developing the practice learning environment including supporting and facilitating the development of student nurses and other professionals
- Evaluating quality in health provision; clinical governance, audit
- The influence of workplace culture on standards of care

Scheduled Learning and Activities: (120)
20 hours seminars
76 hours lectures to include group work
9 hours group tutorials
15 hours forum discussion

Guided Independent Study: (480)
200 hours Literature searching and reading
170 hours Assignemnt and action plan preparation
110 hours Seminar preparation, Blackboard activities

LLOYD, C., GOURNAY, K. and DEANE, F. (2009) Clinical Management in Mental Health Services. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
MATITI, M. R. and BAILLIE, L. (Eds.) (2011) Dignity in Healthcare: A practical approach for nurses and midwives. London: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd.
TEMPLE, J. (2012) Becoming a Registered Nurse. London: Learning Matters.
WHEELER, H. (2011) Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing: A Reflective and Portfolio Building Approach. London: Routledge.

Service User and Carer involvement

Enrolled on BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice / Registered Nurse programme
Access to practice placements
Successful completion of progression point two

This is a 60 credit module at level 6. During the module you will be able to reflect on the content of years one and two to allow you to develop the skills and knowledge you have acquired to a deeper level, this can then be applied when nursing and caring for service users and families in a range of settings. Years one and two have provided you with the "building blocks" necessary for good mental health nursing care by helping you to think about the "6 Cs" that underpin mental health nursing. The Graduate Mental Health Nurse in year three, alongside the Competent Mental Health Nursing Practice module builds on these skills by providing some frameworks that enable you to apply these skills in a consistent and coherent way. The specific focus of the Graduate Mental Health Nurse Module is to examine the wider professional issues that you will encounter as a qualified nurse and to do so in the context of mental health problems that you are likely to have already encountered in practice, but not yet explored in your taught modules. The experiences and skills of the lecturing team will help bridge the theory practice gap as real situations will be explored whilst using the theory to best answer and work with the challenges you may face in your transition from student nurse to staff nurse. To help you achieve insight into your transition, we will be looking at subjects such as, leadership, negligence, change management and others. To help embed these concepts in practice we align them to working with people with specific presentations, such as personality disorder, self-harm and suicide (Both these lists are not exhaustive, but an example of the indicative content that is covered).