This is an option module within the MSc Healthcare Practice programme and may also be taken as a free-standing module. The module is suitable for registered healthcare professionals working in the perioperative environment who wish to develop a career in anaesthetics to enhance the care given to patients in the operating department.

 

Aims

The module will develop the clinical skills and knowledge base needed to be an innovative, competent, confident, and resilient practitioner in all aspects of anaesthetic care.

 

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 anaesthetic nurse

• Non-technical skills in the operating department

• Ethical legal issues in perioperative environment

• Anaesthetic equipment

• Anaesthetic pharmacology

• Airway assessment and airway management

• Specialty anaesthesia (e.g. paediatric, obstetrics, cardiac, neuro, bariatrics)

• Regional anaesthesia

• Advanced airway management

• Emergency in anaesthesia.

 

Academic practice

• Database searching

• Referencing and avoiding plagiarism

• Critical Thinking Skills Toolkit.

 

 Course length: 6 teaching days

 

Assessment

1. Critical appraisal of literature and Competency assessment documentation
2. Critical appraisal of literature (4,000 words)