This module will include a range of subjects and clinical skills such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) five steps to safer surgery and associated documentation.

There will be an introduction to different types of anaesthesia, basic airway management and associated equipment, vital signs monitoring and fundamental surgical skills such as the sterile field, surgical scrub and instrument familiarisation.

This module will also cover areas such as sensory impairment, theatre etiquette and patient safety with an insight into the importance of human factors and ergonomics.

There will be an introduction to the post anaesthetic care unit (PACU) including patient assessment using a structured A to E approach and effective communication and handover using the situation, background, assessment, recommendation and discussion (SBARD) approach.

Objective Standard Clinical Examination (OSCE)

You will undertake 4 x 5 minute assessed OSCE stations from a selection of skills identified by the Module Leader. In order to meet all learning outcomes and pass this module, all four stations must receive a pass grade. Your module grade will then be an average of the score achieved in all four stations. All stations must be passed to pass the module.

Skills might include taking Blood pressure, checking a patient in and conducting an A-E assessment.

Formative Assessment

You will be given the opportunity to complete 2 mock OSCEs and receive feedback.

Learning strategies for this module may include a mixture of simulation, lectures, seminars, group work, independent study, educational games and service users.

In this module guided reading and videos will also be supplied to support learning skills.

1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of core clinical skills and the evidence base relevant to the role of an ODP throughout Operating Department Practice.

Knowledge & Understanding

2. Apply core clinical skills relevant to the role of an ODP throughout the perioperative pathway including rationale for your decision-making.

Application & Problem Solving

3. Employ person centred communication strategies used for the interaction with service‑users and / or healthcare professionals.

Communication

Library resources Access to VLE

Simmersion space

Clinical skills lab

Classrooms

Service Users

Health & Care Professions Council (2024) Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics [Online]. Available from:

https://www.hcpc-uk.org/standards/standards-of-conduct-performance-and-ethics/

Health & Care Professions Council (2023) The standards of proficiency for operating department practitioners[online]. Available from: https://www.hcpc-uk.org/standards/standards-of-proficiency/operating-department-practitioners/

Sara Lister, L., Justine Hofland, H. and Hayley Grafton, G. (2020) The Royal Marsden manual of clinical nursing procedures. 10th ed., professional ed. Wiley.

Yan, K. (2021) Surgical and Anaesthetic Instruments for OSCEs: A Practical Study Guide. Milton: CRC Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429342516.

Rodger, D. (2022) Fundamentals of operating department practice. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

This module will offer you the opportunity to practice and undertake a range of clinical skills vital for safe and effective patient care in clinical practice. This will then link closely with your clinical practice placements, which are assessed through a separate module. Teaching and learning in this module will also link with the theory content for Principles of Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology & Risk Management in Perioperative Care and Foundations of Clinical Competence in Operating Department Practice where relevant skills will be grouped together to form part of simulated practice.