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This course is designed to prepare ethical and effective health care leaders and managers who will be able to lead health service delivery into the future. The course has a strong focus on strategic organisational management, leading change in health service delivery, clinical redesign and in being a facilitative leader who is able to engage staff on developing innovative quality improvements. This course will appeal to those who want to develop strong leadership and effective management skills that can be applied across a range of health care environments. The course is offered at master&#39;s level only, with exit options being the Graduate Certificate in Health Administration or the Graduate Diploma in Health Administration.

Become an ethical, effective health leader. Prepare for work in the public, private or not-for-profit sector. Understand strategic development, and help to work towards delivering culturally safe, resource-efficient health care.

Master of Leadership and Management in Health Care

The Graduate Certificate in Health Administration 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.

Learn how to make changes in the culture, management, and governance of health care facilities. You’ll work on planning, policy, management, and leadership skills. Consider ethics, morals and social justice. Think about how you can improve the workplace.

Graduate Certificate in Health Administration

The Master of Health Administration degree will expand your knowledge and skills in administrative and management foundations, while ensuring relevance to contemporary health care provision.

Get set to tackle the challenges facing the healthcare industry. Support service delivery in diverse settings. Conceptualise new and creative approaches. Prepare for work in health administration and management in hospital or community settings.

Master of Health Administration

The Graduate Diploma in Health Administration 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 health administration.

Work on clear and focussed leadership that’s supported by data. You’ll learn how to shape health care facilities’ culture and governance. Study planning and policy. Consider ethics. Transform yourself and influence health service transformations. 

Graduate Diploma in Health Administration

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

In this subject students will be supported to create strategies for organisational change founded on critical application of change theory, collaborative communication, workforce management and effective leadership. This subject is required by students who will, as leaders in driving change, need to predict potential outcomes of change and the impact on workforce, organisational performance and safety and quality improvement.The aim of this subject is to develop health care leaders who will develop skills necessary to address health service challenges and lead staff in opportunities for capacity building and quality improvement in a complex, evolving environment from both a national and international perspective.

Leading Change in Health Services

Future health service delivery will undergo substantial change due to an ageing population, high morbidity due to chronic diseases, technological advancement, changes in consumer expectations and economic constraints. These types of influence create pressure for new models of care and new, sustainable ways of building efficiencies into healthcare processes. Knowledge and skill in redesigning health services is required by students to lead and manage process improvements that result in cost efficiencies and better resource utilisation.Therefore, the aim of this subject is to prepare leaders and managers of the future who can initiate and monitor Redesign in Health Service Delivery in practice that will lead to sustainable change in health service processes, improvements in organisational performance and better health outcomes. A range of assessment strategies are used including assessing students’ ability to: (i) critically analyse models of care to understand the impact of redesign processes on health outcomes through development of a theoretically based case analysis; (ii) formulate strategies to minimise risk associated with redesign processes through online peer interaction and online discussion\ presentation (iii) apply process improvement methodology to develop a proposal/progress report for a redesigned model of care that will improve quality, reflect cost efficiencies and optimise health outcomes.

Redesign in Health Service Delivery

Understanding, using and interpreting statistics is crucial to health science research and practice, particularly in monitoring health outcomes and decision-making processes about interventions. This unit will develop students&#39; knowledge of fundamental statistical concepts, such as descriptive and inferential statistics, common statistical tests and statistical methods frequently used in health science research. This will include hypothesis testing, estimation, associations, modelling relationships and prediction using different methods such as regression analyses. Throughout the unit, students will consolidate their understanding of statistical theory through its application to practice. While there are some formulae and computational elements to the unit, the emphasis is on interpretation and concepts. Besides the theoretical material, this unit will also enable students to run basic analyses using common statistical software. Using this software, students will analyse simulated health science data sets and then interpret the results obtained. This unit aims to extend students&#39; statistical understanding and analytical expertise, which can then be applied to practice through critical appraisal statistical methods used in health science research.

Explore fundamental statistical concepts and use common statistics software. You’ll learn how statistics are used in health science research and practice. Gain skills to interpret health-related data. Make confident decisions based on evidence.

Biostatistics for Health Sciences

As future leaders in health care, it is essential for students to be able to apply a theoretical foundation in the leadership and development of independent initiatives in their workplace.This unit gives students an opportunity to apply a range of advanced knowledge and skills that foster culturally safe, high quality effective health care through the creation of an effective solution to a unique administrative, leadership, educational or clinical challenge.This unit provides students with the opportunity to critically evaluate the role of evidence–based, ethical practice through investigation of a self–identified area of challenge and opportunity drawn from a clinical/professional issue previously studied in their Master course. The area of study must be measurable, appropriate for the level of the course and extend the topic/issue as it relates to the student’s workplace.This unit is required by students to ensure the fulfilment of the requirements of their Master course, that is, the Australian Qualifications Framework’s requirement for independent project work in the Master by coursework.The aim of this unit is to provide students with the opportunity to undertake self–motivated study and transition to life–long learning as a self–reliant and critically reflective professional.

Apply health leadership skills and theory to solve a clinical or professional challenge. You’ll choose a topic related to your coursework and conduct the project in your workplace. Write up your proposal, run your project, and present your findings.

Independent Project

As an aspiring health care leader, it is essential for students to understand the contexts within which healthcare decisions are made including social, economic, political and technological contexts, among others. While many healthcare decisions are made at the local level, decisions made at policy level will have an impact on all levels of health care and on all practitioners working within the health care system. Accordingly, this subject supports students in developing the ability to plan, implement and evaluate policy-related strategies that promote effective, culturally safe health service administration in a variety of health settings and among diverse communities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Students will also be supported to develop specialised skills in analysing and evaluating solutions to complex problems that are associated with policy development, planning and implementation as well as the consequential outcomes of policy decisions.
This subject provides the opportunity for students to analyse issues that relate to policy development, planning and implementation in health care service delivery in Australia. This subject is founded on a social justice and equity framework with a special focus on evaluating policies that impact on the health of disadvantaged people, as well as on strategies that will reform policymaking, delivery and financing of health care in Australia.
The aim of this subject is to provide opportunity for students to explore policy decision-making processes, to analyse underlying assumptions associated with policy decisions, to evaluate outcomes of policy decisions and to appraise potential issues for policy reform.

Policy and Planning in Health Care

Strategic management in health service delivery addresses health system design, delivery and evaluation. Globalisation has brought the need for healthcare management to be strategically planned and delivered with an awareness of both local and global implications because a broad-based response or approach may be required to address health service issues. This unit is required for students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge and skills, including critical analytical skills, required to apply a contextual, integrative approach to strategic management in health service delivery.In this unit students will consider the broad context of strategic health service management with reference to health service funding and health service delivery. Students will reflect on how awareness of strategy as it applies to health-related issues can influence consumer advocacy and political lobbying for the common good. In critically evaluating strategic, contemporary health service management students will develop skills in addressing national and international health priorities from a long term, consultative, social justice and equity perspective.The aim of this unit is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical basis underpinning health care management strategy and the ability to evaluate the implications of strategic decisions on health outcomes.

Plan for optimized healthcare using current technologies and strategies. You’ll learn to plan, implement, and evaluate changes in the workforce and health system. Improve patient outcomes. Increase accessibility to healthcare.

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