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The Bachelor of Health Service Management provides general foundation studies in a broad range of areas within the health service industry, including; determinants of health and health promotion; health service policy planning and evaluation; business development, economic and financial management; data analytics to inform decision making; human resource management; and strategic leadership.The Health Service Management program will provide the skills to measure the health of populations, understand how social, cultural, and economic factors influence contemporary health problems in Australia and internationally, and develop practical skills in health promotion, health educational strategies, and the management of health services.The program is designed to provide professional knowledge, skills, and attitudes that underpin the role of health service managers. Graduates acquire contemporary leadership and management skills and knowledge to enable beginning-level practice in a wide variety of health care settings.

Prepare for a rewarding management career and thrive in healthcare settings. You’ll study core business skills and gain specialist knowledge in health services policy, planning, and promotion. Graduate into health admin roles and work your way up.

Bachelor of Health Service Management

In an ever-changing world, a Commerce degree from ECU gives you the edge to succeed for jobs of the future.Through work integrated learning, networking opportunities, as well as learning from academics with industry backgrounds, you’ll graduate with the skills you need to forge your career. ECU’s Bachelor of Commerce offers a range of majors and minors, as well as study options including on campus and online, so you can tailor your course to your field of interest all the while studying around your life.There are a broad range of majors to choose from that are created in consultation with industry, with many being professionally accredited and recognised by relevant industry bodies. You can choose up to two majors, a major and a minor, or a major and a range of electives.You will gain critical skills in areas of leadership, teamwork, critical thinking, communication and problem solving, helping you to succeed in a variety of complex, competitive and dynamic global business environments. The course is structured to provide students with great flexibility in tailoring the degree to suit their individual career aspirations.

A job-ready course created in consultation with industry, delivered by academics with industry backgrounds. Tailor your degree to suit your career goals with majors including accounting, HRM, management, marketing, sports business, and tourism. 

Bachelor of Commerce

Health Policy and Decision Making

Aged Care Leadership and Management: Effective Internal and External Integration

Research Methods in Health Management

Health Management Research Plan

Leaders in healthcare must develop sound knowledge and skill in leading service transformation through transformation of self and others. Today’s leaders require personal leadership characteristics as well as the ability to facilitate others to achieve their potential through role modelling, supporting and empowering. This subject is necessary for future leaders who can lead others in planning, implementing and evaluating strategies and tools designed to resolve complex problems and optimise health for diverse population communities such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, among others, through innovative health administration practices that shape and improve healthcare systems.
The aim of this subject is to introduce students to contemporary theory-based leadership practices in order to develop knowledge and skill necessary for leading health service transformation.

Leadership in Health Care

This subject introduces the students to key management strategies including management skills, conflict resolution, change management and team building. Topics such as development of leadership capability, leadership development techniques and coaching are included in this subject. The relevant application of leadership theories in this context will also be examined.

Management

This subject of study will enable the student to consolidate understanding and application of the methods and instruments that form the foundation for monitoring quality and safety of healthcare delivery ensuring optimal outcomes. Students will analyse the leadership and organisational factors integral to the development of a strong clinical governance framework. Knowledge gained in this course will equip students to strengthen clinical governance frameworks and patient safety processes in many and varied health services and settings. Deep exploration of clinical governance undertaken in this course will empower students to ensure that quality healthcare standards are maintained and to become agents of change for the benefit of patients, colleagues and healthcare systems.

Clinical Governance

This subject consolidates students’ previous experience and knowledge of key leadership strategies including leadership skills/attributes of a good leader, performance development and team building. Students will be able to apply leadership development strategies such as leadership styles within their work environment.

Leadership Development Strategies in Health

This course provides learners with an opportunity to explore coaching and supervision models across the professions.The course will address specific challenges facing clinical supervisors, particularly in relation to optimising teaching and learning in clinical settings. By exploring best practice, as leaders, the course considers principles that underpin effective mentoring and role modelling in the context of the clinical setting.

Coaching and Supervision in Health

This subject provides learners with an opportunity to explore key contemporary issues facing health professional educators and leaders as we traverse the changing learning and healthcare landscape.Established principles pertaining to leading organisational change are explored to consider strategies and innovation in the way in which we plan and deliver educational change to improve established practices in health professional education.

Contemporary Issues in Health Professional Education and Leadership

The aim of this subject is to support a system level thinking approach to the complexities that drive planning and decision making in the complex arena of health. Students will be encouraged to expand their understanding of the health system, and national and international polices, frameworks and innovations that may influence local practice. Through online learning modules and the completion of a work based project, students will critically appraise and relate learning.

Systems-Focused Thinking in Healthcare B

Systems-Focused Thinking in Healthcare A

This subject explores how climate change and environmental degradation affect human health and health care systems, and the impact of health care on the environment. Learners identify, analyse and interpret the available sources of evidence that describe these escalating health challenges. Strategies that can be applied within the health sector to adapt to and mitigate climate change and environmental degradation are examined and critically appraised. The subject explores how sustainability can be embedded as a dimension of quality in health care. The importance of working effectively through organisational structures to enable the implementation of proposed strategies, policies and plans is reinforced through examples drawn from practice. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are used as a framework through which a systematic and systems theory approach to the health effects of climate change can be viewed.

Environmental Sustainability and Health Care Systems

The aim of this subject is to develop and support student’s contemporary understanding and application of management and leadership in health practice. This will focus on the application of theory and institutional frameworks to support decision making in the complex health arena, which engages multiple stakeholders including various disciplines, consumers and their significant others. Students will examine leadership theory, collaborative practice and courageous role modelling. Students will engage in coaching and reflective practice, and apply learning through practical engagement with management and leadership activities.

Contemporary Healthcare Leadership B

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