Postgraduate Diploma Nursing (Mental Health)
Develop your knowledge and skills in mental health nursing – and register in an additional field of practice when you graduate.
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Take your nursing career to the next level with our one-year Postgraduate Diploma.
On this NMC-validated course, you’ll learn about causes, assessment, care planning and interventions in mental health nursing.
You’ll explore the experiences of people from different backgrounds, and factors that can impact on mental health.
Learn in our nursing skills labs and get hands-on experience on placements.
When you graduate, you’ll be ready to practice as a registered mental health nurse.
We also offer: Postgraduate Diploma Nursing (Children) and Postgraduate Diploma Nursing (Adult).
Our Postgraduate Diploma is approved by the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) in the UK. You'll be qualified to work as a mental health nurse when you graduate.
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Learn about assessment, care planning and interventions in mental health nursing
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Use specialist nursing skills labs
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Get hands-on experience out on placement
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Gain NMC registration in an additional field of practice
Study at an award-winning university
We were named Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023. We've also been awarded a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework – a reflection of the outstanding education we offer our students.
Careers
Register in an additional field of practice when you graduate – and start work as a mental health nurse.
Our Postgraduate Diploma is approved by the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) in the UK.
Teaching and modules
Develop the essential knowledge and skills you need to work as a registered mental health nurse.
Over the course of a year, you’ll learn more about assessment and care planning in mental health nursing.
Building on your knowledge of care planning, you’ll explore person-centred interventions and working with people across the lifespan. This includes a focus on therapeutic interventions.
We'll also look at nursing leadership, and approaches to reviewing and evaluating mental health care.
Modules are subject to change and availability, and may vary by location. If you have the choice of optional modules, these are indicated with a *.
- Into ARU
- Assessment in Mental Health Nursing
- Developing Approaches to Planning Care in Mental Health Nursing
- Contemporary Mental Health Nursing Practice 4
- Reviewing and Evaluating Mental Health Nursing Care
- Therapeutic Interventions in Mental Health Nursing
Facilities
Hone your skills in specialist nursing labs and out on placement.
You'll have use of extensive library and IT resources, careers support through our Employability Service and, after you graduate, lifelong access to our Alumni Career Centre.
You can also access support, should you need it, with study skills, health and wellbeing, and more.