Diploma of Higher Education Operating Department Practice

Course details During the ODP course you will acquire suitable clinical skills, experience and knowledge to empower you to become an effective practitioner who can deliver high-quality and appropriate care. Throughout the course you will receive a theoretical introduction to an area through seminars, lectures, group work/projects, presentations, practice simulation in skills labs, reading and online tests. You can view information on our facilities and take a 360 tour of our simulation suites here. On this course you will usually be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators and technicians. Year 1 Core units Fundamental Communication Skills: In this unit you’ll learn to develop communications skills and explore group process in both professional and partnership settings. Foundations in Anaesthetic Care: You’ll discover how to care for the patient before, during and after anaesthesia, understand the role of the anaesthetic assistant. Foundations in Surgical Care: You’ll discover the basics of circulating and scrubbing for surgical cases as well as gloving & gowning, surgical instrumentation and patient positioning. Foundations in Postanaesthetic Care: You’ll learn the role of the postanaesthetic practitioner, airway management, equipment and preparation, pain assessment and management, and pharmacology. Foundations in Perioperative Practice: You will be taught a range of subjects to prepare for clinical practice. You’ll enjoy a variety of clinical experiences; facilitated, supported and assessed by registered practitioners. Year 2 Core units Exploring Evidence to Guide Professional Practice: During this unit aims you’ll be required to demonstrate an understanding of how different forms of evidence can effectively guide practice. Care in Anaesthesia: This module will teach you pathophysiology, invasive monitoring, pharmacology, physiological interpretation and advanced pain management. Clinical skills include a refresh of anaesthetic machine & monitoring preparation, invasive monitoring and specialist airway management. Care in Surgery: In this unit you’ll explore the practice of intra-operative care and gain insight and understanding of your individual responsibility in the co-ordination of safe and competent care. Care in Postanaesthesia: Here you’ll explore the continuing care of the postanaesthesia patient and gain insight and understanding of the autonomous role of the post anaesthesia practitioner. Clinical skills will include recognising the deteriorating patient. Developing Perioperative Practice: You're taught a range of subjects, including understanding of human factors, service improvement, humanisation, safety to enable you to work in groups on a real perioperative project that may have impact on practice. Scheduled learning and teaching activities Contact hours Throughout the course, 60% of your time will be spent on placement. This means that your study time at BU will be split between scheduled learning and teaching activities and guided independent learning, such as preparing for and writing up coursework assignments. Year 1 – 16% of your time will be spent in timetabled learning & teaching activities Learning and teaching: 169 hours Independent learning: 481 hours Non-assessed learning and teaching: 27 hours Placement hours: 550 Year 2 – 12% of your time will be spent in timetabled learning & teaching activities Learning and teaching: 136 hours Independent learning: 514 hours Non-assessed learning and teaching: 12 hours Placement hours: 550 50% of the course is assessed by coursework Year 1: 58% Year 2: 41% In addition to coursework, half of the course is assessed by practical exams and a there is a small amount of written exam work to complete. Coursework assessments are designed to be meaningful and allow students to combine their practice and theoretical learning. Previous students have used their coursework to have journal articles published, to compete (& win) in national poster competitions and to develop local hospital policies to improve service delivery. Programme specification Programme specifications provide definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used. Download the programme specification for DipHE Operating Department Practice. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready. Alternatively please contact us for assistance. 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