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The Graduate Diploma in Leadership and Management in Healthcare offers students the opportunity to build on their administrative or management foundations by evaluating current approaches to policy development and implementation in health care delivery.The structure of this course allows students to select a project stream or a research stream relevant to healthcare.

Build practical leadership skills for a wide range of healthcare environments. You’ll explore current approaches in play with healthcare administrators and managers. Delve into policy and planning. Work on coaching and mentoring.

Graduate Diploma in Leadership and Management in Healthcare

The Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Management in Healthcare equips students with skills to examine organisational culture, management concepts, governance and quality improvement within the health care workplace. Students will explore concepts relating to change management and outcomes, leadership strategies and skills, along with ethical, moral and social justice dimensions within the health care sector.This course provides a foundation for students who wish to pursue a management or leadership role within their health care workplace.

Start your journey towards a career in health management with this online leadership course. You’ll cover ethics, organisational culture, and leading transformation. Work on developing personal leadership characteristics.

Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Management in Healthcare

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

Edith Cowan University (ECU) Bachelor of Commerce will equip you with the business knowledge and skills to set you up for career success. Throughout your course – starting from day one – you’ll be supported to develop your career. You’ll be advancing your networking by learning from industry-experienced academics, participating in industry-ready activities, and gaining practical experience in applying theoretical concepts in real-world settings through different types of Work Integrated Learning (including internship opportunities). You will also gain critical skills in the areas of leadership, teamwork, critical thinking, communication, sustainability, ethics, and problem-solving. Tailor your course to your interests with professionally accredited and well-recognised majors that are developed in consultation with the industry. You can create your own mix of majors, minors, and electives. You’ll have the flexibility to study through various delivery modes in a mix of on-campus, online, and on-the-job activities. There are also many opportunities to participate in extra-curricular activities such as ENACTUS and study tours.

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

You will study a wide ranging and diverse base of specialist health management courses. If you are a graduate or manager in health and aged care services and you want to develop your skills and understanding of contemporary health service management issues, these degrees will help you achieve your goals. Through flexible teaching and research options, you will learn about key areas of health sector policy, governance, operations and evidence-based practice management.You will develop skills and knowledge in current management theory and practice, develop your leadership skills and style and gain an in-depth understanding of health workforce planning. You will also learn about managing human resources, planning and implementing health programs, and managing performance and health budgets from respected industry practitioners and academics. Additionally, you will develop skills in strategic decision making and change management and an understanding of the role of technology in health management.Through a project directly relevant to your organisation&#39;s strategic direction, you will develop research and project management skills.

Commit to this accredited postgraduate health services degree, and graduate ready to lead services and improve systems. Explore today’s health service management issues. Understand the health workforce. Learn from experienced healthcare professionals. 

Graduate Certificate in Health Services Management

In this degree, you will study contemporary issues associated with leadership, research, evidence and transformation and reform in healthcare teams, units, organisations and system. This degree will help you develop your management skills and understanding of how health service organisations work and gain the confidence to lead change.The degree is ideal for clinicians, health management professionals; science and information engineering professionals and those working in corporate roles within healthcare organisations with responsibilities in managing information.

Take a deep dive into healthcare reform. Explore contemporary issues around leadership, research, evidence and transformation. Develop your management skills. Understand what change management looks like for health service organisations.

Graduate Certificate in Clinical Leadership

This program will develop knowledge, analysis skills and practical competencies through using the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards and National Model Clinical Governance Framework as the focus for study. The underlying theories and models, purpose, evidence for, application and systems to review each of the standards will be investigated. Students will have opportunities to engage with Australian experts and participate in industry case studies and analysis.

A formal qualification developed by the Australian Institute of Health Service Management. Study national standards, models, and frameworks. Understand how clinical safety, quality, and accountability are critical when managing health services.

Graduate Certificate in Health Service Management (Safety and Quality)

If you work within a healthcare environment and want the skills to navigate, lead change and drive innovation, this is the course for you. This course is ideal for health and clinical administrators, coordinators and supervisors who are looking to step into a leadership or management role. It provides the hard and soft skills needed within a clinical context, including leadership and managerial skills, financial management in healthcare, policy and human factor considerations. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be eligible to apply for the Master of Health Care Management and you will be exempt from the units you’ve already completed that are common to both degrees.

A postgraduate qualification for healthcare professionals seeking career advancement. Open doors to management with skills in mentoring, supervision, and coaching. Bolster your knowledge of safety and quality. Explore ethics, law and policy.

Graduate Certificate in Health Care Management

If you&#39;re a practising healthcare professional and you want to step into management, the Master of Health Management and Leadership from Charles Sturt University is for you. Study this course online, and develop the in-depth knowledge, skills and attitudes required for effective management and leadership practice in a health services context.You&#39;ll learn how to examine the culture of health service delivery and use evidence to make decisions that consider contemporary and emerging issues in the funding, financing, regulatory and policy influences on managerial practice. This degree will also prepare you to lead the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health service delivery.

For health professionals looking to upskill in leadership. You’ll gain skills to plan, implement and monitor health services delivery. Navigate funding, regulatory and policy matters. Innovate and make changes with confidence.

Master of Health Management and Leadership

The Graduate Certificate in Clinical Leadership (Aspiring Leaders) program is focused on advancing the leadership and management skills of participants aspiring to clinical leadership positions. The program is suitable for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. The courses of study will inform leadership and management strategies, quality processes, professional development and/or emotional intelligence. This program will equip participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills to prepare participants to progress their careers within the clinical management settings.

Learn how to manage conflict and foster collaboration in healthcare settings. If you’re an experienced nurse and ready for the challenge of leadership, start with this postgraduate nursing course. Make confident decisions, plan, and manage resources.

Graduate Certificate in Clinical Leadership (Aspiring Leaders)

Aged Care Leadership and Management: Effective Internal and External Integration

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 allows students to develop the methodological framework and tools by which to undertake a translational research project addressing a contemporary healthcare management issue. Students will conceptualise and prepare their project applying the values and principles of research integrity, considering risk, benefit and consent issues. Students will gain the skills to appraise the application and matching of methods to research questions. Students will have opportunities to hear from experts across Australia and participate in industry case studies and analysis.

Research Methods in Health Management

Theories of regulation, governance and national standards for accreditation are reviewed to provide a foundation for organisational management requirements and clinical systems for effective, sustainable high-quality healthcare. Healthcare organisations need for effective understanding of and approaches to risk management, interprofessional practice and continuous quality improvement are reviewed. Analysis will investigate the effectiveness of clinical governance systems for assessing, monitoring, and improving management and clinical systems. To operationalise these requirements, this subject reviews the overarching National Model Clinical Governance Framework (NMCGF) and National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards to determine appropriate systems for clinical governance, accountability and clinical performance and effectiveness. This involves the review and application of the NSQHS Clinical Governance Standard.

Clinical Governance 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 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

Health economics is the study of how scarce healthcare resources are allocated among competing interventions and among groups in society. This course introduces basic concepts and practical issues faced by decision-makers at all levels in the health system in allocating scarce resources so that the choices they make maximise health benefits to the population.

Health Economics

This course seeks to develop an understanding of the social foundations of health and the ways in which frameworks and theories can be used to guide thought and action to improve health. The course draws out the historical, cultural, and structural dimensions of contemporary health problems using the framework of the sociological imagination. Students will explore the social determinants of Indigenous health. Finally, the course will consider social and behaviour change from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Students will develop their critical thinking and analytical skills to understand conversations around health and health outcomes.

Social Foundations of Health

This subject investigates management concepts and theories to improve the integration and functionality of healthcare organisations. Strategies to improve the management of an organisation for enhanced care quality and equitable services will be discussed. A range of management issues are examined including leadership, strategic planning, change, and stakeholder behaviour. These issues are considered at the individual, team, and organisational levels and how they interact. Students will have opportunities to hear from experts across Australia and participate in industry case studies and analysis. [Special note: This subject is offered in even-numbered years only].

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