Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton

Knowledge and understanding
Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the following areas: • clinical and technical procedures and processes used in patient interviewing and examination, neurosensory assessment, management and rehabilitation of adults. • when and how individual procedures and processes should be applied to individual patients. • Neurosensory disability awareness.

Cognitive (thinking) skills
Having successfully completed the module, under appropriate supervision you will be able to: • Evaluate information in order to enable you to recognise, select and plan appropriate techniques for successful investigation of neurosensory disorder in adults. • Synthesise information obtained from the patient along with information from other relevant sources and identify and plan appropriate management interventions. • Evaluate the outcomes of a clinic session and combine them with other relevant details in a formal report.

Practical, subject specific skills
Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to: • Perform the basic neurosensory investigative procedures on routine subjects: Otoscopy Pure tone audiometry Tympanometry and acoustic reflexes Otoacoustic emissions • Visual acuity testing • Visual resolution recording • eeg and emg recording • Nerve conduction velocity studies • Hearing aid testing • Real ear measurements • Gather salient information from patients • Communicate relevant information to patients • Report to colleagues on the outcome of assessment and rehabilitative procedures. • Apply your knowledge and skills relating to deaf awareness issues.

Key transferable skills
Having successfully completed the module, you will have skills in: • assessment and safe working practices. • intra-professional and inter-professional working • analysis of patients’ needs and the evaluation of treatment undertaken • patient handling, patient management, counselling and communication • management of patient records • the use of technical apparatus including computer based procedures

• introduce you to the basic practical, clinical and technical procedures in neurosensory assessment, management and rehabilitation and provide practical clinical training to ensure a basic level of skill. • introduce you to the basic skills required to interact with and handle patients/clients.

• describe routine equipment and procedures used for the assessment of neurosensory function, testing and fitting of correction devices and general management of, adults with a neurosensory loss according to safe working practice. Through practice sessions and a practical assessment you will become familiar with equipment and procedures that you will use regularly in post in the NHS. • describe basic skills in managing, interviewing, assessing and counselling patients. Through group sessions you will acquire skills in patient handling and management that you will use regularly in post in the NHS. • Give you an overview of, and the opportunity to discuss and implement, issues relating to deaf awareness, blindness and other neurosensory disorders from the patients viewpoint.

• Induction week • Disability awareness training (whole group) • Patient handling skills/communicating with neurosensory impaired people (whole group) • Liaising with other professionals / reporting (whole or two groups) • Awareness of National standards for testing patients • eeg/emg recording • Visual acuity and resolution testing • Basic audiometric assessment techniques • Optical correction systems • Introduction to hearing aids • Audiometric assessment techniques • Introduction to evoked potentials

• supporting lectures from Basic neurosensory assessment to ensure that formal lectures will precede practical teaching for each procedure. These will provide theoretical knowledge of the underlying principles behind each procedure to support clinical teaching. Basic neurosensory assessment lectures will be provided in a formal classroom setting. • practical sessions and simulations for clinical teaching of each procedure. This will involve small group work of up to 6 students per group with one tutor per group. • practice sessions to enable students to practice clinical procedures under supervision. This will involve small group work of up to 6 students per group with one tutor per group.

• Working on assignments for each procedural skill. • Completing log book records of clinical practice • You will be expected to practice clinical procedures in your own time. You will be able to go to clinical supervisors for assistance.