Bachelor
Want to become an anaesthetic technician and care for patients throughout their operating theatre journey? Study the Perioperative Practice major in the Bachelor of Health Science, with online learning options.
Several employers offer scholarships to support students enrolled in the Bachelor of Health Science in Perioperative Practice.
To find out which scholarships are currently available for perioperative practice students, visit the AUT Scholarship database and search for 'perioperative practice'.
Alternatively, you can also email your scholarship enquiry to periprac@aut.ac.nz
With the Bachelor of Health Science in Perioperative Practice you develop the skills for a career as an anaesthetic technician, looking after patients during an operation. You'll learn vital competencies such as intravenous cannulation (placing tubes in patients' veins), ECG monitoring (monitoring the electrical activity of the heart), and airway intubation skills (placing breathing tubes into the trachea). These competencies will make you highly employable.
Learning is dynamic and will include classroom-based, online and self-directed learning, as well as reflective practice. Clinical practice and simulation experiences (including virtual reality) are important aspects of this major.
# Contains a clinical practice element.
Workplace experience (clinical placements)As part of this programme, you complete a number of clinical placements in designated services. Clinical placement opportunities exist throughout New Zealand, and you'll be placed with placement providers as close to your preferred provider as possible. In rare circumstances, you may need to undertake clinical placements anywhere in New Zealand. While you're undertaking your clinical placement, you need to pay for your own travel, parking and accommodation.
Hours of clinical placements you complete in this degreeYou can find the approximate number of hours you spend on clinical placements below:
Read more about workplace experience in AUT programmes, how it works and why it's so beneficial when you start your career.