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Intake Dates
Start Date
22 Apr 2025 (Available)
Apply by: 08 Apr 2025
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Attendance
22 Apr 2025 (On Campus), 29 Apr 2025 (Online), 06 May 2025 (On Campus), 13 May 2025 (Online), 20 May 2025 (Online), 27 May 2025 (Online), 03 Jun 2025 (On Campus), 10 Jun 2025 (Online), 17 Jun 2025 (Online), 24 Jun 2025 (On Campus)
Course details
This module is suitable for registered healthcare practitioners working in the perioperative environment who wish to build on their knowledge and skills in theatre practice. The module will allow the practitioner to appraise and evaluate specialist, evidence-based knowledge and practice underpinning the issues and complexities of current theatre practice. The practitioner will be encouraged to critically reflect on their role and practice, and they will be able to develop their competencies and capabilities to utilise specialist knowledge and skills in caring for the client undergoing surgery
Aims
The module will enable students to develop contemporary clinical skills and knowledge base in perioperative practice through research and innovation. It will develop competent, confident and resilient theatre practitioners.
What and how you will learn on this module
How you will learn:
This module is delivered using a blended learning approach which integrates a variety of on-campus and online activities, supported by Canvas, the University’s virtual learning environment. A complementary range of activities are employed to engage you in the critical exploration of key topic areas, and the completion of formative tasks during the module also helps to keep you on track with the learning and gain feedback on your understanding of the content. A sense of community is developed and maintained with frequent opportunities for peer learning, enabling you to share your practice experiences and to learn from each other. Level 6 and level 7 students taking this module may be taught together.
Academic writing and critical thinking skills are developed through ‘The Critical Thinking Skills Toolkit’ and other academic practice activities embedded within the module, that have been designed to nurture the skills needed to facilitate you to become a thoughtful, objective and reasoned thinker. This will help you tackle the assignment(s) confidently, understand marking criteria, use evidence, take a reasoned approach, make structured arguments and engage with other points of view.
What you will learn:
• Role of the theatre nurse
• Professional, ethico-legal issues in perioperative environment
• Principles of theatre practice (i.e., aseptic techniques, gowning/gloving/scrubbing)
• Wound care and management
• Patient care and safety in the operating theatres (i.e., patient positioning, laser surgery, electrosurgical equipment, bariatric care, elderly and paediatric care, robotic surgery)
• Risk assessment and management in operating theatres
• Minimal invasive surgery and robotic surgery
• Day surgery practice
• Non-technical skills and human factors
Academic practice
• Database searching
• Referencing and avoiding plagiarism
• Critical Thinking Skills Toolkit
Course length: 10 Teaching Days
Assessment
Patient case scenario (3000 words) and Snapshot Assessment document.
Learning outcomes
Reflect critically on the role of the theatre nurse working in the multidisciplinary team. and the professional, ethical and legal issues related to perioperative nursing.
Consider the ethical, legal and professional issues which influence the provision of patient care in theatres psychological, social and cultural needs of the perioperative patients undergoing surgery.
Demonstrate clinical reasoning and decision-making skills in managing the care of the perioperative patients.
Analyse critically and evaluate contemporary specialist evidence base from appropriate sources to inform theatre practice and care of the perioperative patients.
Appraise critically the unique care needs of different and complex patient groups from a variety of surgical settings.
Apply knowledge of risk assessment in managing potential hazards and risks in operating theatres and demonstrate safe and effective use of appropriate equipment and technology integral to theatre practice.
Course Information
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Course Leader
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Course delivery
Kingston WFD Admissions Team
Lee Lui
Blended Learning. On-Campus sessions subject to change. If government advice changes, we may need to update our plans. If we do so, we will update this information, and will keep current students and offer holders informed by email.
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Course pre-requisites
Programme entry requirements
Six months experience of working in a suitable perioperative environment and, preferably, the completion of an in-house foundation training programme in the perioperative environment.
Co-requisites: Practitioners should be able to rotate through different surgical specialties within the perioperative environment.
Fees
£2,299.00
Self-funding students will need to make a one-off payment for the module via our secure payment portal before the online enrolment process.