Mongolian Mental health Nurse Training: post graduate diploma curriculum development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mongolian Mental health Nurse Training: post graduate diploma curriculum development

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

This project will support the modernisation and internationalisation of Mongolian higher education by developing a post-graduate diploma for mental health nursing . Pedagogic skills of lecturing staff will be enhanced by training. The course is expected to improve outcomes for mental health service users by improving clinical skills, help reduce the stigma of mental illness by media coverage and increase applications to work in mental health services. This project will build on an existing relationship developed between UK and Mongolian universities and clinical staff since 2012. Mongolia has one of the lowest levels of medical and nursing staff in mental health care in the world. There is no formal training in mental health for nurses, and a lack of community service provision. Clinical staff have limited access to information on advancements in research or clinical practice, as resources are not available in Mongolian.The project consortium from Finland, the Netherlands and the UK propose to address this. They have partnered with the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences (MNUMS) and two Mongolian private universities to develop a training program based on combined best practice from the 4 countries, tailored to the meet the needs of Mongolians. The project will collate educational curricula, materials, guidance and standards for review by the project partners and carry out a training needs analysis for Mongolian nurses. The curriculum content will be developed and piloted over 18 months with a cohort of 12 students. A series of observational and training visits to clinical and educational settings across Europe will take place for both students and lecturers over a 20 month period. Achieving an international consensus on core components of mental health nurse training will be a novel output from this project. Open access to the project materials and course content will enable easy adoption in other countries with similar need.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 991501 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX & Country: UK

Project Partners

• MONGOLIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
• ENEREL INSTITUTE
• ETUGEN UNIVERSITY
• STICHTING HOGESCHOOL UTRECHT
• TURUN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY