This module will explore and challenge current working practices within the Operating Department: in the surgical setting. The teaching and learning methods will be interactive, participatory and student led. Day to day clinical issues will be explored using a combination of problem solving, and action learning approaches. Students will be encouraged to be actively involved in the development of solutions to practice dilemmas. Students on this module will be assessed on both a theory and competence component. It is expected that students will have a full time post with in a theatre department and the support of their manager to achieve competencies within the specialism. The department will also need to be able to support the student in learning additional surgical specialities for the duration of the course. Students need to organise with their manager their own placement mentors.

Available as a standalone module: Yes 

Attendance (Please note, this is subject to change for future intakes)

Dates: For attendance information, please see the top of this page. Please note, if the module is full or closed for the intake(s) this academic year, dates may not appear. 

Venue: LSBU Southwark Campus

Typical intake(s): Semester 1

Career Benefits

This module seeks to provide focus and direction for practitioners who wish to develop their skills and expertise in relation to surgical nursing. The module aims to enable an individual practitioner to have broader competence skills to progress in a direction that meets workforce, meeting the needs of the future NHS as outlines in the Five Year Forward View in 2014 by the Department of Health (DH,2014) and the HEE agenda for Clinical Academic Careers Framework (HEE 2015).

Encompasses multi-professional working and a sharing of expertise and skills across traditional professional boundaries and fields as new services and roles are being developed to meet current and future challenges for perioperative service delivery. Completion of this Module should help the practitioner to be in a better position to progress in their career and to work in a perioperative setting.

Assessment

• Element 1 - Competency Document
• Element 2 - Presentation

Both elements of assessment must be passed to pass this module. 

Assessment/submission date: See attendance dates

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding:     

• To demonstrate an understanding of the role of the perioperative nurse in the delivery of care.
• Increase knowledge and understanding National and local health care policies and initiatives aimed at improving patient care and safety.
• Promote quality care by utilising and evaluating available evidence
  

Intellectual skills:

• Become an autonomous and accountable decision maker.
• Synthesise information from a number of sources in order to provide high quality care.
  

Practical Skills:

• Demonstrate clinical competence in the field of perioperative assessment, surgical practice, specimen handling and the promotion of patient safety.
• Demonstrate effective essential clinical skills pertinent to perioperative care.
• Problem solve in changing and challenging health care situations
  

Transferable skills:

• Demonstrate ability to think logically and systematically in the provision of care.
• Develop a reflective approach to work and academic study.
• Effectively communicate ideas and convincingly both orally and in writing