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Leadership in Health Care
Postgraduate | ACU-HLSC605 | 2023
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 10 weeks
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Leadership in Health Care
About this subject
On successful completion of Leadership in Health Care, students should be able to:
- Explain how the effective application of leadership frameworks/theory/principles can transform self and engage others (GA1, GA2, GA4)
- Evaluate contemporary challenges and management approaches for healthcare leaders in facilitating service transformation with a person/family-centred and culturally safe focus in healthcare delivery that incorporates equity and diversity (GA1, GA2, GA3, GA4)
- Generate leadership strategies that empower self and others to drive ethical innovation and changes that contribute towards service transformation through cross-sectoral collaborative action (GA1, GA2, GA3, GA4, GA5, GA6, GA9)
- Leadership frameworks/theories/models to guide practice improvement, including:
- - leadership theories/models
- - application of leadership theories/models to the health care environment
- - Leadership strategies for practice improvement
- - components of effective and ethical leadership
- - influence of leadership in contemporary health care organisations including
- * socio-political
- * legal
- * economic
- * technological influences
- The person as health care focus
- - diverse cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, spiritual backgrounds, values, beliefs, education, economic background
- - human flourishing
- - person/family-centred care – multiple dimensions
- - legal, ethical and communication aspects of relational care
- - issues of technology and information systems use in person-centred care
- Leadership strategies for organisational innovation and change
- - models/theories of change
- - enablers/resistance/barriers to change
- - creating climate for innovation and change
- - building political and organisational support for change
- - organisational/practice policy development
- - staff development and education
- - data, data analytics and the use of digital technologies
- Leadership strategies from a global perspective
- - systems thinking
- - communicating and negotiating within/across teams, services, sectors
- - engaging and enabling consumers and communities
- - building coalitions across silos, organisations and sectors
- - ethical implications of effective leadership.
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.
In order to pass this unit, students are expected to submit three graded assessment tasks. In addition, students must achieve a cumulative grade of at least 50% across all assessments. The assessment strategy used allows for the progressive development of knowledge and skills necessary for the student to be able to consider leadership practices and challenges, evaluate ethical leadership approaches and apply effective leadership practices to improve health outcomes.
To become an effective leader in a health care environment, the student will be supported via the online learning platform to develop a sound theoretical basis upon which contemporary leadership approaches and challenges to effective leadership can be assessed and evaluated. Students will be further supported to collaborate with peers via an online medium to develop leadership strategies that can be applied in the workplace from within an ethical framework. Students will be further supported to be able to apply their knowledge of ethical and effective leadership practices to improve health outcomes in a variety of health care settings.- Reflective Journal - Enables students to reflect on leadership practices and transformational health care. (30%)
- Online Group Work- Enables students to collaborate in evaluating leadership challenges and management within an ethical framework via an online environment. (20%)
- Written Report / Proposal / Essay - Enables students to apply leadership practices that improve health outcomes. (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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