Recovery Management in the Perioperative Environment
- Study Mode: Part Time
- Location: Blended Learning
- Duration: 15 Weeks
- Start Date: February 2025
This short course will help you develop the skills and knowledge needed to successfully undertake the role of a Surgical Module. This module runs twice per year, with intakes in October and February
Our lecturers maintain clinical currency by working in practice to ensure you receive the most up-to-date insights and training.
Credits: 20 credits at Level 6 and 7.
Why study this subject?
This course is designed for health practitioners working in the perioperative environment in the post anaesthetic care unit, who wish to extend their knowledge and skills in caring for patients who have had surgery and an anaesthetic.
Why study at Buckinghamshire New University?
This module will help enhance your knowledge and skills in providing postoperative care in the perioperative environment.
There will be the opportunity to reflect on, and analyse the care offered, and use evidence to increase your understanding of the service provision, professional issues, and teamwork in this specialty area.
What will I study?
Key themes of the module include:
- Patient, safety, comfort and dignity within the Post Anaesthetic Care Unit
- The 6Cs - care, compassion, courage, communication, commitment and competence
- Leadership
- Key drivers and contemporary issues in practice.
Throughout the module, you will cover key skills and knowledge for practice, such as:
- care planning to meet the patient's health and safety needs
- structured assessment and management of changing physiology
- advanced respiratory support
- specialist and advanced practice in an acute recovery area
- the holistic care and management of a patient during the recovery phases of the perioperative journey
- anaesthesia and its effects
- pharmacology relating to recovery
- understanding and managing pain
- management of postoperative nausea and vomiting
- achieving and maintaining normothermia
- identification and management of complications arising from anaesthesia and surgical interventions
- transferring of patient between clinical environments
- management of intravascular devices
- anatomy and physiology related to surgery and anaesthesia
- role of the recovery practitioner in the perioperative team.
When will this course run?
3 October (online)
10 October (online)
17 October (online)
24 October (face-to-face, High Wycombe Campus)
31 October (online)
21 November (online)
9 January (online)
16 January (face-to-face, High Wycombe Campus)
What are the course entry requirements?
Registered health care professional with minimum 6 months experience.
Support of the clinical manager and a suitably qualified mentor/assessor.
Opportunity to work outside usual clinical area, if necessary, to gain specific clinical competence.
What are the tuition fees
Home
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Home, Academic Year 2024 - 2025: £1,300 *
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Home, Academic Year 2025 - 2026: £1,320 *
Following the Government’s announcement of 4 November 2024, we will be increasing our full-time undergraduate tuition fees for UK students to £9,535 per year from the start of the 2025/26 academic year. Our part-time fees for UK undergraduate students will increase to £7,145 per annum. Please visit , on the Government’s website, for more information about the changes.
Tuition fees for Home undergraduate students (including with foundation year) may increase in subsequent years for both new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by the Government.  
Tuition fees for both new and continuing international students may be subject to an inflationary increase based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the 12-month period to 31 January each year.  
Tuition fees for postgraduate courses and CPD may be subject to an inflationary increase based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the 12-month period to 31 January each year. This increase will apply to both new and continuing students.  
We understand, and really appreciate, the significant financial commitment our students make when they choose to study at BNU. We take our responsibilities to our students very seriously, and are ambitious for each to reach their full potential and succeed in their chosen career. Our fees help us to continue providing our students with a high-quality education, and to invest in the services and facilities which create an excellent student experience at BNU.
The following factors will be considered by the University when we set the annual fees: measures of inflation such as the retail price indices; projected increases in University costs; and any changes in the level of funding for teaching received from the Government.
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