BSc (Hons) Healthcare Science (Physiological Sciences)

This module aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of the pathophysiology of common diseases, with a focus on cardiovascular and respiratory disorders.

This module focuses on issues that determine working practice in the laboratory and clinical environments, changing practice in light of research. This module covers the basics of research methods and details of professional practice within healthcare science. Students will evaluate how evidence based practice has impinged on their chosen specialist area.

The overall aim of this module is to give the student experience of one or more areas of Healthcare Science and to ensure they can undertake the full breadth of practice expected of a newly qualified Health Care Science Professional within their chosen specialist area. The student will be expected to develop their skills with respect to patient-centred care, ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions and care is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values. By the end of this module, the student will be expected to apply in practice a range of technical and clinical skills and critically reflect on and develop their performance, working within the Standards of Proficiency set by the AHCS.

The overall aim of this module is to ensure an understanding of the breadth of the application of science within Cardiac Physiology. Building on previous learning the student will develop and apply their knowledge and understanding in Cardiac Physiology and develop their skills with respect to patient-centred care.

The overall aim of this module is to ensure students have an understanding in the breadth of the application of science within Cardiac Physiology and building on previous learning, develops and applies that knowledge and understanding in Cardiac Physiology.

The overall aim of this module is to ensure that the student has the knowledge and understanding of the breadth of the application of science within Respiratory and Sleep Sciences. The student will be expected to develop their skills with respect to patient-centred care, ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions, and: (i) perform spirometry, static lung volumes, and administer and measure the response to a bronchodilator; (ii) measure gas transfer and spot oxygen saturation: and (iii) set up and download of an overnight oximeter in a range of patients referred to the respiratory physiology/sleep department. During this period of work-based learning students will apply their learning from the modules ‘Instrumentation, Signal Processing and Imaging’; ‘Pathophysiology of Common Cardiovascular and Respiratory Conditions’; ‘Respiratory and Sleep Physiology’; ‘Applying Respiratory and Sleep Physiology in Practice’; and ‘Professional Practice’. They will be expected to build their professional practice and practise safely in the workplace. Students will be expected to use critical reflection to review and improve their performance in the workplace and develop skills to promote CPD.

The overall aim of this module is to ensure that the student has the knowledge and understanding of the breadth of the application of science within Respiratory and Sleep Sciences. The aim is to provide the knowledge required to ensure that students develop their understanding of a range of common respiratory disorders. The module will cover the underpinning knowledge required for the performance of spirometry, administration and measuring the response to a bronchodilator and spot check oximetry. The student will be expected to develop their skills with respect to patient-centred care, ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions

The overall aim of this module is to give the student experience of one or more areas of Healthcare Science and to ensure they can undertake the full breadth of practice expected of a newly qualified Health Care Science Professional within their chosen specialist area. The student will be expected to develop their skills with respect to patient-centred care, ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions and care is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values. By the end of this module, the student will be expected to apply in practice a range of technical and clinical skills and critically reflect on and develop their performance, working within the Standards of Proficiency set by the AHCS.

The overall aim of this module is to ensure that the student begins to gain wider knowledge of investigations undertaken in a Cardiology Department, particularly provocative electrocardiography, pacing and cardiac catheterisation. This module will also build on earlier work to develop the themes of public health and epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, risk factors, risk assessment, primary prevention including behavioural change management. The student will be expected to develop their skills with respect to patient-centred care, ensuring that patient values ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.

The overall aim of this module is to ensure that the student develops knowledge and understanding of a wider range of investigations utilised within Respiratory and Sleep Sciences and their application in relevant care pathways. This module will build on earlier work to develop themes of public health and epidemiology of respiratory disease and sleep disorders, risk factors, risk assessment and primary prevention, including behavioural change management. Students will develop their skills and knowledge with respect to patient-centred care and the importance of ensuring that it guides all clinical decisions, and further develop skills in muscle function testing, limited multichannel sleep studies and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy.

This module will consider recent developments in Cardiac Physiology associated with the specialist theory curriculum at level 6. It will cultivate an awareness of research findings, clinical developments, and current guidelines associated with practice as a Healthcare Science Practitioner in Cardiac Physiology.

This module will consider recent developments in Respiratory and Sleep Physiology associated with the specialist theory curriculum at level 6. It will cultivate an awareness of research findings, clinical developments, and current guidelines associated with practice as a Healthcare Science Practitioner in Respiratory and Sleep Physiology.