Duration
14 weeks
Study method
100% online
Available loans
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Study terms
- 15 Jul 2019
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Subject details
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- Quality in health service organisations
- Quality assurance in health care
- Quality improvement
- Strategy and quality development
- Implementation
- Tools of quality improvement
- Measuring quality improvement
- Development of quality organisation
- Risk management
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Study resources
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Online materials
- Resources and Links
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In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- CUR-HIM-GDI-2018
- CUR-HIM-GCE-2018
- CUR-HIM-MAS-2018
Elective
- CUR-HIM-GCE-2018
- RMI-MBA-MAS-2018
- CUR-MPH-GDI-2018
- CUR-MPH-MAS-2018
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2018
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2018
Special requirements
- EquipmentDetails - Audio/Visual equipment
This subject was previously known as Health Service Quality Development.
The goal of this subject is to introduce the student to strategic approaches for developing a quality oriented health service organisation. Topics include: History and development of quality and safety; Quality and safety issues related to leadership, management, planning and management of information; Role of the consumer; Tools for process analysis and management; Outcomes of quality measurement; External recognition of quality programs; Safety and the quality agenda; Role of clinical governance.
Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.
Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.
- Essay (40%)
- Case Study Presentations (45%)
- Discussion Board (15%)
Textbooks are not required.
Related degrees
postgraduate CUR-MPH-MAS-2018
Master of Public Health
- Stream - Health Policy and Management
- Stream - Health Promotion
- Stream - Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics
