DA6015 - Integrating Evidence into Perioperative Practice Development

The module offers a variety of strategies to assist your learning and support you to undertake your Practice Development Dissertation. This includes a range of e-lectures, practical workshops and regular meetings with a named supervisor. Blackboard Ultra will be the platform on which your learning material will be presented, as well as face-to-face workshops, of which some will be academic led and others student led.
You will be encouraged to work and learn collaboration with peers and the inter-professional team to build your knowledge and understanding. This will introduce you to principles of partnership, collaboration and teamwork, which is so important when conducting a successful practice development.
These learning opportunities are designed to provide you with the knowledge, confidence and guidance to develop research skills and an in-depth understanding of the generation of evidence-based practice to improve and develop perioperative practice.

You will obtain support from face to face dialogue with academic staff during seminars and workshops. You will utilise peer support during the directed and independent parts of the module. You will be provided with a group tutorial to support your summative assessment; this will be part of a seminar. You will also be supported via the modules online supported learning (OSL) systems in addition to face-to-face teaching and group work activities and discussion. You will be able to contact the module team in person, by email or phone and through the Blackboard Ultra. Skills Plus, the University Library’s collection of online learning materials on Blackboard Ultra can be used to support the development of your academic skills. Further support for your learning is provided with a 24 hour IT Helpline, a comprehensive range of services through the Student Support and Wellbeing Team and the University’s student portal, which gives help and advice on student enquiries. https://one.northumbria.ac.uk/service/sls/ssw/Pages/Home.aspx

You will also support each other via peer support, through engaging in discussion and debate to enhance your learning. Additional relevant materials, including the electronic reading list and other teaching and learning methods will be available via Blackboard Ultra and library services. All support will be in line with any Disabled Student Services Recommendations (DSSR). https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/-/media/884c14e22461424ba52c7cf102152d70.ashx?h=16&thn=1&w=16&modified=20190808132301

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:

1. Critical appreciation and understanding of the theory and practice of applied healthcare research.
2. Critical analysis of a perioperative topic/issue of the student’s choice.
3. Critical understanding of the complexity of practice development and change management.

Intellectual / Professional Skills & Abilities:

4. Conceptualise a practice development proposal and establish its relevance to perioperative practice.
5. Demonstrate the skills in undertaking a practice development project in the perioperative environment.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

6. Confidently defend informed judgements about the way the practice development is planned and conducted and evaluated ensuring professional values and accountability are articulated in academic practice.

Formative Assessment:

Provision of formative feedback on performance will be an ongoing process through group/class discussion in formal scheduled teaching, and will align to the criteria of the summative assessment.
A 1000-word formative proposal of the intended practice development.
Working in small peer groups you will formally present your chosen practice development study. You will receive peer and facilitator feedback against the assessment criteria.

(MLO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Summative Assessment:

This will be a 6000-word Practice Development Dissertation and will be submitted for assessment electronically via Turntin There will be written feedback and feedforward provided via Turnitin.

(MLO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

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As an Apprentice ODP, this yearlong (third year) module will enable you to experience, develop firsthand practice development, leadership, and change management skills. You will have the opportunity to apply principles of partnership, collaboration and interagency working to research and the development of a practice improvement idea. You will be encouraged to understand health legislation and current health and social care policies, which influence health research and research priorities. These areas of knowledge will be used to inform your Practice Development Dissertation designed to explore an area of improvement when providing safe, effective and person-centred perioperative care for people of all ages. This is a yearlong module providing the time to develop a topic, which reflects the complexities of undertaking change management, leadership team working, and evaluation in the clinical settings.