Principles of Anaesthetic Care - Level 6 and 7

The module aims as part of the Professional Practice programme to develop knowledgeable and professional practitioners. It will enable you to develop your role, skills and management of anaesthetic care.

Through practice-led learning you will develop skills of enquiry, reflection and problem solving to identify and justify how your role impacts upon the safe and effective care of patients within all aspects of the perioperative environment.

What's covered in the course?

This module is taught via range of different modes of delivery and assessment at City South Campus:

• problem based learning
• skills sessions
• classroom sessions
• online learning
• independent learning
• hi-fidelity simulation

This will allow you to develop competency within the technical and non-technical skills required to work as an anaesthetic practitioner within the anaesthetic setting to ensure the safety of the patient.

Across the programme there is also the expectation that you develop and refine clinical competence and the application of best evidence based knowledge to direct patient care, whilst becoming a self-directed and reflective learner.

Why Choose Us?

• Excellence of support for all students
• Redesigned contemporary programme that meets the needs of the perioperative practitioner
• Delivered by ‘experts’ in the field of perioperative practice
• We are one of the largest and most diverse providers of health and social care education in the country
• We use our advanced and innovative education facilities to simulate the real life health care situations
• We have one of the UK's largest specialist health education libraries
• We have very close links with a wide range of clinical practice partners to maximise your experience

Course structure

Topic covered in this module are:

• Introduction to anaesthesia
• The anaesthetic machine
• Monitoring and interpretation of observations
• Intravenous fluids and management
• Airway management
• Medicines management
• Anaesthetic drugs and pharmacology
• Regional anaesthesia and pharmacology
• Anaesthetic care for diverse patient groups
• Clinical emergencies
• Patient assessment and management
• Clinical complications in anaesthesia
• Hi-fidelity simulation in theatre on the deteriorating patient.

This module will enable you as a health care practitioner to develop your role, skills and management of anaesthetic care to a level capable of delivering care to patients with complex needs that may be undergoing elective, non-scheduled or emergency procedures.  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. 

There will be a focus on the assessment, application and evaluation of care delivery for complex and 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, and planning of a care intervention.  

For level 7 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 using the best available evidence.