Module Descriptors

This module which includes a practice based learning component will provide the student with the opportunity to care for people with a range of mental health care needs. It will allow the development of critical decision making skills within a multi-disciplinary team. This will be facilitated within a range of mental health care settings.

The practice element will allow students to demonstrate an increasing degree of autonomy, working towrds the equivalent of independence and at times working without direct supervision, where appropriate. Students will be facilitated to take the lead in relation to assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating safe and effective person centered care, taking cognisance of professional and legislative requirements within mental health care delivery.

Skills to support people in self-management and recovery for a range of mental health issues including people with severe and enduring needs will be developed. The module will equip students to develop, demonstrate and utilise appropriate professional and graduate skills including management and leadership skills. The module will also facilitate the consolidationof the student's ability to make decisions and recommendations related to care load management and the delivery of safe, effective and evidence based interventions.

• Registered Nurses are responsible for managing care and are accountable for the delegation and supervision of care provided by others. They have a key role in inter-professional and multi-agency working and increasingly work in partnership with other service providers. The purpose of this module is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to deliver and manage care within this changing landscape and to develop confidence in decision making and in the prioritisation, delegation and assignment of care working in partnership with service users and carers to provide person centred recovery focused care in a range of clinical environments.


• The content of this module will include: principles of effective management of care; group and organisational dynamics; culture and the relationship between skill mix, safety and quality of care. Healthcare economics and the politics of welfare will be examined and improvement methodologioes that supports safe and effective nursing practice will also be explored.


• Skills will be developed through simulation and practice. A detailed mapping tool provides information on the NMC annexes to be covered in this module.


• A practice learning experience will provide insight into the challenges of managing care for a specified group of patients. Health improvement methodologies and change management strategies will be explored in simulated experiences on campus and reflection on practice. It will also allow students to evidence ongoing achievement of the NMC standards of proficiency in a practice setting as directed by the NMC Standards of Assessment in Practice.


• Students will have opportunity in placement experience to apply knowledge and understanding of mechanisms of drug interactions and adverse drug reactions to medicines optimisation, medicines administered and clinical practice, (BiNE, LO9 & 10, 11)


• Programme threads of Suicide and Self-harm, Learning disability, CAMHs, Dementia, Law and Safeguarding, Digital Health Technology and Trauma will inform module content.


• Specific Annexe A & B skills for this module are detailed in the programme skills schedule and preload is related to assessment, formulation, care planning and clinical decision making and communication for approaches such as psychoeducation and concordance.

On successful completion of this module the student will be able to:

L1. Exercise autonomy and initiative in effective care provision by managing the care of a group of people.

L2. Apply knowledge and skills of therapeutic interventions to provide person centered care for people who have a range of complex care needs.

L3. Critically analyse and support self management for people experiencing mental health issues

L4. Based on relevant knowledge from health and social science, critically evaluate the delivery of recovery focused, person centred care, providing constructive feedback

L5. Demonstrate evidence of achievement of the required standards of proficiency associated with your professional discipline

Understanding the principles of effective management of care including group and organisational dynamics and culture and the relationship between skill mix, safety and quality of care.

Critically understanding the relationship between theory and nursing practice in a variety of contemporary mental health care settings.

Safely and effectively manage the nursing care of a group of people demonstrating prioritisation,delegatiation and time management skills.

Demonstrating the ability to accurately undertake strengths based assessments (including assessment of risk)in a range of care settings using a range of contemporary assessment tools

Supporting the management and delivery of safe and effective nursing care, promoting reflection and providing constructive feedback working in partnership with key stakeholders to improve practice.

Participating in the assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and management of people with a range of mental health care needs. This will include people who demonstrate a degree of unpredictability in their care.



Working towards completion of the NMC (2018) Standards for Pre-registration Nurse Education .

Demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the scope of professional and mutli-disciplinary values and practice.

Reflecting and evaluating own responses to differing problems & issues with varying levels of complexity.

Demonstrating the ability to make safe informed, care management decisions.

Developing the analytical skills required for problem solving and decision making that underpins nursing practice.

Decision making

Teaching and Supervision

Effective communication, numeracy and IT skills that supports safe and effective nursing practice.
This may include developing and evaluating the use of
- Care plans
- Nursing notes
- Integrated care pathways
- Multi-disciplinary team meetings
- Drug administration
- Relevant risk assessment tools

Progressively demonstrating increased proficiency in relation to numeracy including, databases, rating scales and the ability to present logical and coherent information using graphs.

Digital health TOPOL

Contribute to team reflection and supervision activities to promote improvement in practice

Appraising the complexities of partnership working with users, carers and other agencies.

Utilising initiative in response to the needs of people with mental health care needs within accepted professional boundaries and professional practice limitations.

Accountability for personal and professional maintenance.

Exercises knowledge and skill in effective delegation and the supervision of others within acceptable practice boundaries.

Developing a self confidence and self awareness of strengths that celebrate difference and will enhance employability

The following materials form essential underpinning for the module content and ultimately for the learning outcomes:

In line with the Academic Engagement Procedure, Students are defined as academically engaged if they are regularly engaged with timetabled teaching sessions, course-related learning resources including those in the Library and on the relevant learning platform, and complete assessments and submit these on time. Please refer to the Academic Engagement Procedure at the following link: Academic engagement procedure

Where a module has Professional, Statutory or Regulatory Body requirements these will be listed here:
100% attendance in Practice Placement areas is required by the end of the programme to meet NMC requirements. In this module students may be assessed if at least 70% of the practice learning experience is met.

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1. More than one assessment method can be used to assess individual learning outcomes.
2. Schools are responsible for determining student contact hours. Please refer to University Policy on contact hours (extract contained within section 10 of the Module Descriptor guidance note).
   This will normally be variable across Schools, dependent on Programmes &/or Professional requirements.