Venues

Paisley Campus

Content

The programme aims to prepare Operating Department Practitioners who will be equipped to practice in dynamic, multidisciplinary settings and able to demonstrate competence in the provision of high standards of safe, effective, individualised and patient focused care during anaesthesia, surgery and post-anaesthesia care.

Year 1
Introduction to Operating Department Practice; Academic Personal and Professional Development; Life Sciences; Introduction to Scrub and Circulating Practice; Introduction to Anaesthesia and Post-Anaesthesia Practice.

Year 2
Principles of Anaesthetic Care; Intermediate Anaesthesia and Post-Anaesthesia Practice; Holistic Perioperative Care; Pathophysiology; Intermediate Scrub Practice.

Year 3
Research in Perioperative Practice; Advanced Perioperative Practice; Leadership in Perioperative Practice.

Entry Requirements

3 Highers plus 2 subjects at National 5. Foundation Apprenticeships and other relevant national qualifications will be considered.

You must be in (or in process of looking for) a GA position with an employer. Contact institution for further information.

Progression Routes

Employment as an Operating Department Practitioner.