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Quality and Safety in Health Care
Postgraduate | ACU-HLSC604 | 2020
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Quality and Safety in Health Care
About this subject
On successful completion of this Quality and Safety in Health Care, students should be able to:
- Analyse issues/factors that influence, or are influenced by, the emergence of the quality and safety movement in health care including accreditation programs, health care standards and the consumer movement
- Evaluate risk management strategies and processes that are designed to identify and minimise potential risk, manage adverse events and promote ethical, safe, quality patient care in healthcare
- Create strategies to improve health outcomes that incorporate moral responsibility toward the common good as well as a person-centred care approach
- Issues/factors that influence, or are influenced by, the emergence of the quality and safety movement
- Current best practice for clinical workforce
- Qualifications, skills and approach of managers and clinical workforce
- Integrated governance systems to manage patient safety and quality risks (National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards)
- Improving safety and quality systems
- Patient rights and engagement in ethical care
Adverse events and poor quality care can have a significant impact on health care costs and health system sustainability. This subject is essential for future leaders in health care who need to have specialised knowledge and skill in applying effective quality measures to administer culturally safe health services across a variety of healthcare contexts.
In this subject, students will explore the emergence of the quality movement and accreditation and safety standards that have been progressively driven by consumer expectations around safe, quality care, in preparing to become effective health care administrators. This foundational knowledge is required to enable interpretation and evaluation of quality and safety processes and to develop a repertoire of quality improvement tools used to create strategies that improve quality and safety processes.
The aim of this subject is to ensure that students can effectively promote quality and safety leading to better health outcomes as well as cost efficiencies in a variety of health care settings. Managing health care in this way ensures that safe, quality care is a transformative process of continuous improvement that respects the dignity of individuals and contributes to the common good.
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. In order to reward students for engagement and performance, a final graded result will be awarded. The assessment strategy used allows for the progressive development of knowledge and skills relevant to quality and safety in health care which are necessary for the student to be able to demonstrate achievement of learning outcomes
- Written Reflection (30%)
- Group Presentation (20%)
- Essay (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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