Operating Department Practice

About this course

Operating department practice is a healthcare profession concerned with providing compassionate, safe, and effective care to patients throughout the perioperative period, the period surrounding surgical procedures from pre-operative assessment through anaesthesia and surgery to post-operative recovery. Operating department practitioners work alongside surgeons, anaesthetists, and theatre nurses in a range of perioperative settings including operating theatres, emergency departments, intensive care units, and recovery areas, and they are essential members of the team that keeps patients safe during procedures when they may be at their most vulnerable. The three-year full-time Operating Department Practice degree at the University of Bedfordshire is designed for students with an interest in becoming registered ODPs, able to offer coordinated, patient-centred care in these high-acuity sett

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