MSc - Pre-Registration Nursing/Registered Nurse: Mental Health Nursing
The course aims to develop the skills required for you to become a confident, competent, caring, and compassionate mental health nurse.
Using a person-centred approach, you will learn how to facilitate the recovery of service users in various settings, including those who are acutely ill, in rehabilitation services and experiencing long-term conditions across the lifespan. You will also have opportunities to learn about partnership approaches to caring for service users, carers, and families.

Course Overview
The MSc Mental Health Nursing (Pre-registration) course aims to prepare graduates for the complex, demanding, and rewarding area of mental health nursing. The course provides graduates from a range of backgrounds the opportunity to transfer their skills, build on undergraduate experience and become a fully-qualified NMC registered nurse in two years.
To gain vital real-world experience, 50% of your course is spent on placement. Your placement will be spent across a varied range of professional environments for example. perinatal mental health, dementia services, forensic mental health and dementia and memory matters. Obtain sought-after postgraduate credentials, with a NHS Band 5 prospective starting salary.
On this course you will...
- Develop the skills and knowledge to practice as a confident, competent and caring Mental Health Nurse as well as the opportunity to enjoy a rewarding career in an area of nursing that excites you.
- Learn through the support of experienced practice assessors/supervisors whilst on placement and from nursing staff and academics in both the classroom and simulated clinical environments.
- Be a part of an intimate cohort so that you will benefit from close tuition from the nursing team who will be on hand to support you through your studies and help facilitate your learning.
- Have access to a range of technology to enhance your learning. These include clinicalskills.net, OCULUS - a virtual reality headset for simulated activities and Pharmacology and Prescribing Resources.
- Graduate with a masters in Nursing and be eligible to register with the Nursing & Midwifery Council as a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
What our students say
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I would like to go home after work and be able to sit at home knowing that I have made a difference to someone’s life whether that be small or large. I am a strong believer that you never stop learning, for me, the MSc is the next step on my journey.
Chloe McKeating, MSc Nursing
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You are welcomed onto the course with smiles and kindness and nothing is ever too much trouble for the lecturers. The course is amazing, the skills you are taught to be able to go on placement, the equipment which is available for you to be able to learn the skills and the resource in the university to help you enhance your learning skills is something you wouldn’t get at other universities.
Louise Caven, MSc Nursing
Location
Carlisle - Fusehill Street Campus
The Fusehill Street campus has been the setting of life-saving treatments since World War I. Now, it's home to world changers, life-savers, crime fighters, and entrepreneurs with access to high-quality facilities and innovative thinking.
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