Module Aim 

This module will develop your knowledge and understanding of academic, personal, and professional skills that enable transition into Level 4 study and future employability. 

The module will be delivered through a combination of face-to-face and digital lectures and seminars, practical's, Academic advising, and simulations. 

Indicative content 

Content of the module is agile and flexible to allow for changing professional situations and contemporary perspectives. Typical indicative content includes: 

• Fundamental principles of health care  

• Key organisations, agencies, services, professional bodies. 

• Professionalism, Professional standards, and code of conduct/ethics/practice within relevant work-related roles. 

• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion 

• Academic writing conventions 

• Sciences related the 11 health professionals including biology, physics and chemistry. 

• All sciences will cover fundamentals and basic overview also exploring links to professional specific knowledge.  

Module Aim 

In this module you will develop your knowledge and understanding of a range of contemporary issues that currently influence healthcare. It will focus on developing your ability to find, select and apply appropriate research and evidence. 

The module will be delivered through workshops and seminars. 

Also, Academic advising session within this module.  

Indicative content 

Content of the module is agile and flexible to allow for changing professional situations and contemporary perspectives. You should be able to:  

• Search and identify appropriate evidence.  

• Explore issues impacting on Healthcare.  

• Identify policies and actions that lead to sustainable healthcare.  

• Explore the challenges of working with diverse communities. 

• Recognise strategic delivery partners Healthcare.  

• Examine the use of interventions to address challenges in healthcare. 

This module introduces you to the biopsychosocial, cognitive, political, economic, and medical factors which influence the health and wellbeing of individuals, diverse populations and communities. You’ll work with peers from other professions to consider how collaborative practice impacts on health and wellbeing outcomes, and helps you thrive in your own professional practice.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Models of care, support and empowerment 

• Social capital and cultural humility  

• Social accountability and determinants of health  

• Safeguarding practice  

• Public health agendas, inquiries and evidence-based reports  

• Building effective, trusting relationships   

• Community profiles and place-based care systems  

• Person-centred service delivery  

• Behaviour change and microaggressions 

• Diversity and inclusion 

• The effects of planetary health on wellbeing 

The module aims to provide you with the opportunity to apply knowledge and understanding in the clinical environment to practice and develop your role as part of the multi-disciplinary team caring patients holistically undergoing minor procedures as classified by NICE guidance grades of complexity of surgery (2018). 

• You will attend clinical placement and work alongside and with practice supervisors / educators. Each placement learning experience will be different according to the practice area, but all placements will allow you opportunities to engage in practice and demonstrate your capability and competence in the areas to be assessed. Your practice supervisor/educator will guide and support you in gaining appropriate experience

• These opportunities will be used to assess your knowledge and understanding and skill development, with an emphasis on ensuring that theory is integrated with and applied to practice.  Placement learning will be an essential part of developing an understanding of your role and that of the wider health care team and the needs of the patient/service user

Indicative content:  

• E-Portfolio 

• Clinical practice competencies 

• Mandatory Training  

This module introduces knowledge and skills for the peri operative practice environment, through a blend in-person and online lectures, seminars and practical activities. You’ll also learn remotely and independently, further enhancing your knowledge, skills and digital development.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Anaesthetics, surgery and post-anaesthetic care  

• Introducing the service user 

• Holistic care from equality, diversity and inclusivity to mental health awareness  

• Confidentiality, consent and health promotion 

• Applied anatomy and physiology 

• Clinical concepts in infection control, patient positioning and basic monitoring 

• Drugs and medical gases   

• Managing your health and wellbeing 

• Research, policy and guidelines for supporting practice 

• University life/learning and systems 

This module further develops your knowledge and skills in anaesthetics, surgery and recovery in the fit and healthy patient, enabling you to thrive as a holistic practitioner in a multi-disciplinary team. You’ll learn through a mix of online and in-person lectures, seminars and practical activities, as well as remotely and independently. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Holistic care of the service user in the clinical environment, including EDI and mental capacity 

• Preoperative assessment and consent 

• Anaesthetics, surgery and recovery  

• Clinical skills for fundamental perioperative practice 

• Applied anatomy and physiology 

• Pharmacology and common drugs 

• Related research, policies and guidance   

• Professional behaviours 

This module consolidates your progression to graduate-level study and professional practice, reflecting on your role as a professional who delivers safe and effective person-centred care. You’ll be supported to identify influencing factors on your professional practice – developing strategies which support you to thrive personally, professionally and academically. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Reflective practice and writing skills 

• Personal and professional development and identity 

• Emotional intelligence 

• Self-perception, privilege and introduction intersectionality and allyship  

• Self-management, feedback and leadership 

• Ethics in professional practice 

• Communication methods and techniques 

• Contemporary policy for professional practice 

• Teamwork and collaborating across professional boundaries 

• Personal behaviour and self-assessment techniques 

• The impact of behaviours, values, research and anti-oppressive and inclusive practice  

This module is your chance to apply your professional knowledge, skills and values in an integrated manner. You’ll work collaboratively with peers from other disciplines to assess, intervene and overcome the challenges of complex health and social care situations – supporting individuals, groups and communities.    

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Drivers for integrated and person-centred health and social care  

• Inter-professional teamworking across multiple service interfaces   

• Shared ethical decision-making, collaboration and co-production 

• Assessment, treatment planning, evaluation and risk management 

• The realities of living with long-term conditions and multi-morbidities  

• Mental capacity, best interest assessment, equality and reasonable adjustments  

• Resilience, communication, breaking bad news, difficult conversations   

• Interpersonal and systemic discrimination in health and social care 

• Inclusive language and terminology including challenging microaggressions  

• Technology-enabled care and digitalisation within integrated care systems

This module introduces you to research and enquiry design and methods. You’ll be able to apply them to an area of investigation – considering factors that impact on literature appraisal – preparing you to undertake and manage an investigation as a professional practitioner. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• What makes a good question  

• Research design, types of evidence and suitability of methods 

• Co-production – patient and public involvement 

• Inclusive perspectives of research  

• Data collection methods, strengths and weaknesses 

• Analysis techniques 

• Usefulness/impact and implications for practice 

• Ethics and governance 

• Sample of existing appraisal tools 

• Searching and critically reviewing the literature  

This module develops your skills, knowledge and understanding in the real-world environment, attending clinical placement to demonstrate your capability and competence, supported by a practice educator. You’ll care holistically for patients undergoing intermediate procedures, as part of a multi-disciplinary team of qualified healthcare practitioners. 

You’ll apply skills and learning such as:   

• Anaesthetics, surgery and PACU 

• Theory integrated with and applied to practice 

• Understanding of your role  

• Working with the wider health care team  

• Understanding the needs of the patient/service user 

• Creating an e-portfolio 

• Clinical practice competencies 

• Mandatory training 

• Drugs calculations 

This module further develops your knowledge and skills in pathophysiology and patient complexity for anaesthetics, surgery and recovery – focusing on the impact of co-morbidities and long-term conditions. You’ll learn through a mix of lectures, seminars, group activities, remote learning and independent studies. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Academic skills development  

• Holistic care of the service user with additional caring needs  

• Equality, diversity, and inclusion, and mental capacity 

• Theory for anaesthetics, surgery, and recovery focusing  

• Clinical skills for complex perioperative practice  

• Invasive monitoring, difficult intubation, blood transfusion and cell salvage 

• Introduction to obstetrics 

• Pathophysiology of disease or injury 

• Technological advances in the peri operative environment 

This module further develops your knowledge and skills in operating department practice in the acute and critically ill patient, enabling you to develop and thrive as part of the multi-disciplinary team. You’ll learn through a mix of online and in-person lectures, seminars and practical activities, as well as remote learning and independent studies. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Caring for critically ill and acute patients 

• Altered protocols: consent 

• Additional caring needs such as EDI and mental capacity 

• Working in critical care, A&E, CT and angiography 

• Developing theory for anaesthetics, surgery and recovery  

• Unfasted patients, major haemorrhage, anaphylaxis and malignant hyperthermia 

• Interpretation and analysis of patient investigations  

• Related anatomy and physiology 

• Intermediate life support skills 

• Teamwork and transfers in emergency scenarios 

This module develops your systematic understanding of leadership and education concepts in practice. You’ll critically reflect on these in the context of collaboration within health and social care practice – considering how you can effectively support people who use services, their carers and families, and communities who have complex health and care needs to thrive.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Differences between management, leadership and the role of the critical follower 

• Leadership theories, models and styles most relevant to health and social care  

• Self-awareness and seeing ourselves as leaders 

• Recognising our own personal impact, rank, power and privilege  

• Professional cultures, traditional hierarchies and becoming an agent of change  

• Leading psychologically safe, anti-racist and inclusive teams  

• Resilience, volatility and acknowledging the wellbeing needs of the workforce  

• Sustainable practice, quality improvement and leadership 

• Tackling inequalities in health and social care through advocacy and education 

• Technology-enabled care and digitalisation within integrated care systems 

This module develops your understanding of the clinical environment to manage complex patient care requirements, or patients undergoing major procedures. It’s a preceptorship-style placement to support your development towards autonomous professional practice, mirroring real-world practice. 

You’ll apply skills and learning such as:  

• Dissemination 

• Seven-day working 

• Knowledge and understanding for assessment 

• Theory integrated into practice 

• Creating an eportfolio 

• Clinical practice competencies 

• Mandatory training 

This module brings together the knowledge you’ve gained throughout the course, focusing on aspects that are relevant to the critical care environment, in relation to education in practice. You’ll explore career opportunities, professional development and resources for future learning and staff development.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Practice educator development 

• Learning theories and styles 

• Providing constructive feedback 

• Developing your career and employability 

• Considering innovation in practice in relation to education 

• Contemporary issues in practice 

• The impact of research and leadership on education in the critical care environment 

This module develops your knowledge and understanding of clinical enhanced skills, with tools to critically evaluate the care you provide. You’ll learn through a mix of lectures, seminars, group activities and simulated skills practice, as well as remote learning and independent studies. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Clinical skills training examples  

• Cannulation, venepuncture, blood sampling and catheterisation 

• Drug preparation and administration 

• The role of the surgical first assistant 

• Employability 

• Improving patient and staff experience  

• Improving quality of care 

This module enables you to undertake a sustained, in-depth piece of independent learning, demonstrating a critical understanding and applying appropriate research methods within a piece of work. This work will challenge and contribute to improvements in areas of practice through the dissemination of findings to professional communities. 

You’ll apply learning and skills such as:  

• An individual independent project/dissertation 

• Creating and contributing to research and evaluation for practice 

• Application of approaches to research 

• Research, improvement and evaluation methodologies 

• Addressing inclusivity in your research process 

• Dissemination of project outcomes 

• Challenges in applying research outcomes to practice