Principles of Anaesthetic Care - 20 credits - Module

This module is aimed at predominately graduate, post-registration healthcare professionals that wish to build upon prior knowledge, skills and experience that have been acquired in practice previously and develop your knowledge of enhancing anaesthetic care. It will enable you as a health care practitioner to develop your role and clinical skills as well as your ability to prioritise anaesthetic care to a level capable of delivering care to the complex deteriorating patient that may be undergoing elective, non-scheduled or emergency procedures.

The module will focus on the assessment, application and evaluation of care delivery for complex, diverse patient groups including clinical emergencies and the deteriorating patient. This will include the interpretation of a range of clinical data, recognition of the patient’s needs, planning of a care intervention and reflection on how this care may influence the patient’s overall condition to ensure a safe and effective outcome for the patient using the best available evidence. This module develops you as a practitioner to take an individual and holistic approach to the assessment, planning, management and evaluation of care for acutely ill patients. You will build upon prior knowledge, skills and experience that you acquired in practice and this module will relate to all other level 7 modules within the perioperative pathway programme in order to gain transferable knowledge. This will enable you to identify and justify how your role impacts upon the safe and effective care of patients within all aspects of the perioperative environment.

This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is designed to be flexible and practice-led. You will have the opportunity to develop skills of enquiry, reflection and problem solving. A blended learning approach is taken (incorporating both classroom and online activities via Moodle) in line with the university’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and share practice experiences with your fellow students, as well as engaging in both directed and self-directed learning activities. You will be an active partner in your own learning and development and in return you will receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills, and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team and practice mentor. You are expected to further develop analytical and decision making skills to plan and manage appropriate interventions for diverse patient groups with increasingly complex needs.

You will be expected to evaluate how an intervention in one area of care may influence the patients overall condition and synthesise what actions need to be taken to help ensure a safe and enhanced outcome for the patient. This module will complement and enhance previous learning and develop the application to complex case scenarios and the practice of enhanced anaesthetic care. BCU Module Specification V1.01 2018/19 23/10/18 This will allow you to develop competency within the technical and non-technical skills required to work as an anaesthetic practitioner under the supervision of a registered practitioner and further develop the relationships that you have formed in multidisciplinary teams within the anaesthetic setting to ensure the safety of the patient within a clinical practice setting.