Description

Registered mental health nurses support and care for people with a range of mental health conditions, in hospital and community settings, and help them towards recovery and management of their conditions.

Tasks

• Provides information to patients and their families about a patient's condition, how to manage it and possible treatments.
• Works with other mental health professionals.
• Administers drugs and gives other forms of treatment.
• Monitors patient’s progress, encourages patients to participate in different therapies.
• Participates in the preparation for physical and psychological treatment of patients with mental health conditions.
• Provides day to day support for and, in some cases, physical care for patients with a variety of mental health conditions.

Entry Requirements

Honours, Bachelor's degree

Skills

• Active Listening
• Speaking
• Reading Comprehension
• Critical Thinking
• Monitoring
• Writing
• Active Learning
• Learning Strategies
• Mathematics
• Science

Related Courses

• Access to HE Diploma (Medicine) - Level 3
• Access to Nursing Healthcare Professions - Level 3
• Access to Nursing Healthcare Professions - Level 3 - Part-time
• Allergy Awareness - Adult Social Care
• Allergy Awareness for Those Working in the Service Sector - Level 2
• Animal Nursing Assistant - Level 2 - Part-time
• Award in Personal Social Skills - 1-1 modules - Level 1
• Award in Personal Social Skills - Introduction to Wellbeing - Level 1
• Awareness of Mental Health Problems - Level 2
• Care Skills Essentials - Part-Time
• Common Health Conditions - Level 2
• Engagement to Health and Social Care-Childcare - Level 1
• Falls Prevention Awareness - Level 2
• Health Adult Nursing - T Level - Level 3
• Health and Social Care - Level 1
• Health and Social Care - Level 2
• Health Social Care Academy - Level 3
• Health Studies - Level 3
• Pre-Access to Science Nursing - Level 2 - Part-Time
• Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care - Level 2
• Principles of Care Planning - Level 2
• Principles of End of Life Care - Level 2
• Principles of the Mental Health Care Worker - Level 2
• Principles of the Prevention and Control of Infection in Health Care Settings - Level 2
• Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Apprenticeship - Level 3
• Understanding Autism - Level 2
• Understanding Common Illnesses Affecting Children - Level 2
• Understanding the Care and Management of Diabetes - Level 2
• Understanding the Safe Handling of Medication in Health and Social Care - Level 2