**Please note that the information provided relates to the current academic year and is subject to change without notice by Sheffield Hallam University.
Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.**
**Course summary:**
- Understand health sciences in the practice setting.
- Gain the knowledge, skills and values to enter into highly skilled employment.
- Develop a strong professional identity and confidence.
- Learn to develop and deliver person-centred care.
This unique course offers you an exciting opportunity to transform the lives of individuals and communities by becoming a fully qualified mental health nurse. This challenging, stimulating course encourages you to develop your nursing skills in a friendly and supportive environment. You’ll graduate as a reflective, competent and employable professional
**How you learn:**
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.
On this course, you’ll learn from enthusiastic academic staff who have a variety of clinical expertise and experience. You’ll apply your theoretical study directly to your practice setting — where you’ll work on real cases.
Nurses are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team. In some modules, you will learn and collaborate with students from other health and social care courses. This approach will help you to deliver person centred-care with an understanding of how other professionals contribute to the person's journey through health and social care services.
You learn through:
- practice-based learning (50%)
- lectures
- workshops
- projects and group work
- presentations
- simulation
- independent learning
- skills rehearsal
- technology enhanced learning
**Applied learning**
Theory will prepare you for practice learning experiences are designed to help you not only to apply theory to practice, but to develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice in order to become life-long, competent professionals. You are required to attend the practice learning experiences provided on the course to achieve the course practice learning outcomes.
You’ll undertake a range of practice learning experiences, helping you to build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity and curiosity. This will take place in different practice learning environments, reflecting the range of ways in which services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements alongside real world experience of services delivered face to face to service users.
The university will ensure that the practice learning element of your course will be compliant with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) governing your chosen profession. This is so that by the end of your course, you will have been provided with the opportunity to demonstrate attainment of the requirements to register as a professional with your chosen profession.
Course Details - Modules
Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.
Year 1 - Compulsory modules
Assessing And Planning For Person Centred Care
Collaboration For Individual And Community Wellbeing
Personal And Professional Development
Science For Professional Practice
Year 2 - Compulsory modules
Applied Sciences For Professional Practice
Assessing And Addressing Complexity
Evidence And Enquiry For Practice
Providing And Evaluating Person Centred Care
Final year - Compulsory modules
Leading And Co-Ordinating Person Centred Care
Professional Leadership
The Advancing Professional
Theory/Practice Hours - Nursing And Midwifery
Working With Complexity In Practice
Course Details – Assessment Method
Coursework
Exams
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Nursing and Midwifery Council
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
B760
Institution code:
S21
Campus Name:
Main Site
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
From A levels or equivalent BTEC National qualifications. We do not accept AS levels. For example:
BBC at A Level.
DMM in BTEC Extended Diploma.
A combination of qualifications, which may include general studies.
Access to HE Diploma from a QAA recognised Access to HE course in health studies, health science, social sciences or nursing. Normally we require 15 credits at level 2 and 45 at level 3 of which at least 15 level 3 credits should be graded at merit level.
• FdSc Professional Practice in Health & Social Care - If you are in the process of completing or have successfully completed the above programme at one of our partner colleges (Sheffield College, Barnsley College, Chesterfield College, North Lindsey College, Dearne Valley College, Manchester College, Stockport College and Doncaster College) and are looking to progress your career as a registered professional within the Health & Social Care sector, we would welcome an application from you via UCAS to start in Year 1
•Successful completion of our Foundation Year in Health, Sport & Social Care.
• Degrees will be considered on an individual basis and if you already hold a first degree with an upper second class honours or above, you may be eligible to study our pre-registration MSc Mental Health Nursing
We strongly recommend that you tell us about any long term health conditions, learning difficulty or disability you may have. This is so we can assess whether we can deliver the course in such a way that you can meet the Health and Care Professions Council standards of proficiency and take part without disadvantage both in University and on placement.
You can contact our disability coordinator on 0114 225 2588 to explore any issues you may have, or you can contact our university disabled student support team on 0114 225 3964 (voice and Minicom).
Before enrolling you must fully declare the following information on the pre-admission declaration forms provided during the admissions process:
unfiltered criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings. For further information on unfiltered offences please see the Disclosure and Barring Service website.
involvement in disciplinary proceedings during paid or voluntary employment or education establishments
involvement with safeguarding proceedings, social services or related organisations
enrolment on a health or social work professional course at another University
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
7.0
IELTS 7.0 with a minimum score of 7.0 in reading, listening and speaking and 6.5 in writing
If your level of English language is currently below IELTS 7.0 we recommend you consider an appropriate Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve the required level of English.
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
70%
Go onto work and study:
90%
Fees and funding
Republic of Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Channel Islands
9250.0
Year 1
EU
14415.0
Year 1
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
International
14415.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Our tuition fees for UK students starting full-time undergraduate study in 2022/23 are regulated by the UK government and are yet to be confirmed. For an indication, our tuition fees for UK students starting this course in 2021/22 are £9,250 per year.
Our tuition fee for International/EU students starting full-time study in 2022/23 is £14,415 with an annual placement supplement of £2,000.
Provider information
City Campus
Howard Street
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Sheffield
S1 1WB
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