Program Overview

Clinical & Professional Perioperative Practice BSc (Hons)

Overview

This program provides the opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges faced by operating department practitioners and perioperative staff. It enables qualified operating department practitioners and perioperative staff to develop specialist knowledge and skills.

What you'll study

• Course content
  • The course's core modules introduce you to the skills and methods of research and subsequently involve the completion of a dissertation.
  • The Research Methods module will help you to develop skills in specific aspects of research methodology and equip you to prepare a proposal to undertake a small scale piece of research.
  • The Advancing Practice Project module offers you, with the support of an academic supervisor, the opportunity to develop your ability to independently produce a sustained piece of work.
• Compulsory modules:
  • Advancing Practice Project
    • Enables you to develop the ability to work independently on a sustained piece of work.
    • You will suggest an area of practice from within your clinical area that would benefit from an in-depth review from an evidence-based practice, system redesign, or staff/service user education perspective.
    • Module code: HEA3161
    • Credits: 40
    • Assessment: 100% Coursework
  • Research Methods
    • Designed to enable you to develop an understanding of the research process, the nature and variety of research methods, together with the need for an evidence base to guide the decision-making process.
    • Module code: HEA3102
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 100% Coursework
• Optional modules:
  • Enhanced Surgical Skills
    • Introduces you to extended skills, such as wound infiltration with local anaesthetic, anatomy of the skin, suture material and needle selection, and superficial wound closure.
    • Module code: HEA3056
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 100% Coursework
  • Ethical and Moral Dilemmas in Health
    • Enables you to critically analyse and question your own, your profession's, and society's approaches to ever-increasing ethical situations.
    • Module code: HEA3218
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 70% Coursework, 30% Practical
  • Management of the Patient in the Anaesthetic Setting
    • Developed to facilitate the development of knowledge, skills, and underlying principles of safe and effective anaesthetic practice.
    • Module code: HEA3183
    • Credits: 30
    • Assessment: 100% Practical
  • Management of the Patient in the Recovery Setting
    • Developed to facilitate the development of knowledge, skills, and the underlying principles of safe and effective post-anaesthetic recovery practice.
    • Module code: HEA3184
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 100% Coursework
  • Principles of Scrub and Circulating Practice
    • Developed to facilitate the development of knowledge, skills, and underlying principles of safe and effective scrub and circulating practice.
    • Module code: HEA3099
    • Credits: 20
    • Assessment: 100% Coursework
  • Specialist Perioperative Care (Negotiated Learning)
    • Designed to enhance your existing perioperative provision by developing the skill of critical evaluation within a specialist area of perioperative practice.
    • Module code: HEA3212
    • Credits: 10
    • Assessment: 100% Coursework
  • Surgical First Assistance in Operative Procedures
    • Designed to develop qualified practitioners, who have been identified by Trusts to undertake the Surgical First Assistant's (SFA) role.
    • Module code: HEA3055
    • Credits: 30
    • Assessment: 100% Coursework

How you'll study

• Module delivery approaches vary from face-to-face classroom-based activities to solely online delivery.
• Many modules involve a blended approach combining online study with taught sessions at Edge Hill University or St James' in Manchester.
• The Advancing Practice Project module is delivered at Alder Hey Institute in the Park in Liverpool.
• The course is designed for busy professionals to study on a part-time basis whilst in employment.
• It is possible to study the degree as a full award or study a module on a standalone basis.

How you'll be assessed

• The programme utilises a variety of assessment techniques and strategies, including written assignments and examinations, observed structured clinical examinations, seminar presentations, interviews, and the development of a portfolio.

Who will be teaching you

• The teaching team comprises research-active senior lecturers with extensive clinical and professional expertise and experience.
• Guest lecturers with specific subject and clinical speciality experience from all professional disciplines will also contribute to the richness and variety of the programme.

Entry criteria

• To join this course, you should be practicing in a perioperative environment.
• You must be registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council as a qualified ODP or the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a qualified Nurse.
• Alternatively, you must hold an overseas nurse or allied health professional qualification and IELTS 6.0 or equivalent (with 6.0 achieved in the written and spoken language element of the test, completed within the last two years).
• You should have 240 UK credits with 120 at level 4 (Cert HE) and 120 at level 5 (Dip HE).
• Alternatively, students who are over 21 will be considered if they can demonstrate the ability to study at degree level by the successful completion of a 20 credit Edge Hill University degree level module.
• You will have an informal interview with a pathway coordinator to verify that you meet the entry requirements and plan your pathway to ensure the course will meet your individual needs.

Facilities

• The Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine offers outstanding facilities for the education and training of health and social care professionals.
• The contemporary teaching and learning resources include leading edge clinical skills facilities, an 860-seat lecture theatre, and a variety of teaching rooms and social learning spaces.
• These facilities are complemented by the modern clinical skills facility at St James' in Manchester city centre.
• The Advancing Practice Project module is delivered at Alder Hey Institute in the Park in Liverpool, a dedicated research, education, and innovation centre in children's healthcare.

Finance

• Tuition fees:
  • UK Part-Time: £50 per credit for 120 credits
  • EU/EEA and Swiss students who have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, as well as Irish nationals, may be eligible for the UK tuition fee rate.
• Financial support:
  • Please view the relevant Money Matters guide for comprehensive information about the financial support eligible to UK students.

Your future career

• A degree will help you stand out from the crowd in a competitive job market, allowing you to progress in your profession whilst improving patient care.
• You will also gain universal skills, such as how to problem solve, apply relevant knowledge and skills, communicate effectively, and reflect on your practice.