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Take the first steps in your career at the University of Hull – one of the top universities in the UK to be taught nursing, according to the Guardian University Rankings 2025.
This degree will give you the skills and knowledge to deliver high-quality mental health care and graduate as a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
Plus, you’ll also receive a payment of at least £6,000 a year during your degree. This doesn't need to be paid back and is in addition to any financial support received through your student loan.
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About this course
As a specialist mental health nurse, the one-to-one relationships you build with those in need are vital to their care and to helping them overcome challenges.
With this hands-on degree, you'll learn to work and communicate with patients, families and carers – often in challenging situations – and you’ll develop the skills and experience needed to take your next steps as a healthcare professional.
The course is divided equally between classroom-based learning in our £28 million Health Campus and spending time on mentored clinical placements.
This blended approach gives you the best opportunity to develop your skills, professional insight and experience, with a focus on service user, carer and practitioner involvement.
On graduation, you'll be able to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a qualified registered nurse.
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Module options
Each year, you’ll study modules worth a certain number of credits, and you need 120 credits per year. Most modules are 20 credits – so you’ll study six modules each year. Some longer modules, such as a dissertation, are worth more. In these cases, you’ll study fewer modules - but the number of credits will always add up to 120. Some modules are compulsory, some are optional, so you can build a course that’s right for you.
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Fundamental Nursing Skills
Link theoretical knowledge with fundamental nursing skills in a safe clinical simulation environment giving you a firm grounding in preparation for clinical practice.
core
20 credits
Fundamentals of Professional Practice
Explore ethical, legal, and professional dimensions of nursing practice and use research skills as part of academic writing.
core
20 credits
Practice 1
Get your first taste of working in a healthcare environment with the support of a practice supervisor and practice assessor. Participate in people’s care with support and guidance from others.
core
30 credits
Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health
Explore how the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age impact on their health and life experiences.
core
20 credits
Practice 2
Build on Practice 1 to become more confident and competent in participation in care with guidance and support from others.
core
30 credits
Developing Nursing Skills
Consolidate your clinical skills in a clinical simulation environment and extend and apply your knowledge of life and social sciences to nursing practice.
core
20 credits
Developing Professional Practice
Explore how nurses work within multidisciplinary teams, with patients and service users and their supporters to deliver safe, effective, meaningful care.
core
20 credits
Practice 3
Be an active participant in care under the guidance and supervision of practice supervisors and assessors.
core
30 credits
Critical Perspectives on Assessment and Formulation within Mental Health Nursing
Question and explore your own and alternative perspectives on mental health and develop skills to promote meaningful individual recovery.
core
20 credits
Our facilities
Our academics
You’ll be taught by expert staff in some of the UK’s finest health facilities following our £28 million investment.
Our academics work closely with local partners to train the healthcare professionals of the future, as well to conduct research that is at the forefront of its field and benefits the wellbeing of our local community and beyond.
Professor Jacquie White
Head of School
Jacquie is our Head of School for Nursing and Midwifery and a registered mental health nurse. Among her biggest achievements is co-designing the Health Improvement Profile (HIP), a tool used by mental health nurses across the world.
Vickie Howard
Deputy Programme Director
Vickie is the Deputy Programme Director of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme and an undergraduate lecturer. Her wealth of experience includes working in senior roles in acute inpatient care, community and perinatal mental health, and more.
Entry Requirements
Fees & Funding
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Future prospects
Our nursing degrees have an incredible graduate employability rating, so the career prospects couldn’t be better.
You’ll graduate with the skills and experience to be a professional healthcare practitioner and eligible to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
Most of our graduates go on to work in the NHS – but others find positions overseas, in private practice, in the social services, the pharmaceutical industry, the Armed Forces, the prison service or in specialist areas such as drug rehabilitation.
Become part of the next generation of futuremakers
Like what you've seen? Then it's time to apply.
The standard way is to apply through UCAS. This will give you the chance to showcase your skills qualities and passion for the subject, as well as providing us with your academic qualifications.
Not ready to apply yet?
Visit our next Open Day, and see all that Hull has to offer for yourself. Talk to our lecturers about your subject, find out what university is really like from our current students, and take a tour of our beautiful campus and amazing facilities.
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100% employability (Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Nursing) UK domicile full-time first degree leavers; Higher Education Graduate Outcomes statistics, for the academic year 2021/22, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency June 2024.
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Mental Health Nursing course is 10th out of 62 institutions for Teaching Satisfaction. The Guardian University Rankings 2025.
All modules presented on this course page are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.