British Journal of Nursing
Changing a Future Nurse undergraduate nursing programme to include more mental health content: initial evaluation
The 2018 Nursing and Midwifery Council's ‘Future Nurse’ standards introduced increased genericism to UK nursing education, prompting criticism from specialist fields concerned about diluted field-specific knowledge. This article reports on a curriculum innovation at one UK university that addressed local implementation challenges through targeted module development to include an increased number of field-specific modules alongside core content. Among others, two new modules were introduced, one on mental health for …