(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
1. understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of Cardiac Physiology and professional competencies informed by recent research/scholarship in the discipline;
2. deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the discipline of Cardiac Physiology;
3. demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;
4. discuss and evaluate aspects of recent research and/or scholarship within the Cardiac Physiology and Healthcare field;
5. demonstrate understanding of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge within Cardiac Physiology;
6. make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;
7. apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended project;
8. conform to NSHCS and AHCS professional boundaries and norms; and evidence skills required to register as a practicing Cardiac Physiologist
9. demonstrate reflective practice
10. communicate effectively in English using verbal and non-verbal skills
Competence Standards
1. Communicate in accurate and structured ways, appropriate to a variety of audiences.
2. Assess situations and respond effectively to service users and mutidisciplinary teams/variety of audiences
3. Ability to be responsive and actively engage in non standard medical outcomes and medical emergencies resulting from numerous sources of information.
4. Differentiate, evaluate and report on a variety of cardiac diagnostic procedures during and after the procedure.
5. Effectively demonstrate the development of a strategy for workload following collaborative work with peers and mentors
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
1. demonstrating the ability to apply to a broad range of aspects of Cardiac Physiology;
2. work that draws on a wide variety of material;
3. the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
4. evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within Cardiac Physiology;
5. work that is typically both evaluative and creative;
6. clinical competencies reflective of a Graduate Cardiac Physiologist
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