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Bioethics and Law for Health Care Leadership
PostgraduateMUR-SHP5102025
Become a true leader with studies in decision making. Consider decisions from every angle – including the ethics and legalities behind them, how they are justified, and when they need review. Learn to lead with a collaborative approach.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 15 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025,
- 28 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,160
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Bioethics and Law for Health Care Leadership
About this subject
On successful completion of the subject you will be able to:
- Interpret the professional values that influence your professional practice and contribute to legal and ethical decision-making
- Reflect in practice in a professional role, the responsibilities regarding legal and ethical decision-making
- Analyse how educational, contextual, political and economic factors may influence legal and ethical decision-making within health care
- Communicate knowledge of clients’ rights, and the right of competent clients to be active participants in decision-making about their care, and how this may be achieved
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.
This subject will prepare you to take a leadership role in the workplace that allows collaboration in ethical decision-making. The focus is on recognising actual and potential ethico-legal dilemmas in professional practice, and how decisions are made, justified and reviewed. A conceptual framework will be used to explore the decision making process while examining actual and perceived roles, professional values, and communication and collaboration practices when decisions with an ethical and/or legal dimension have to be made.
Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.
- Online Discussion (25%)
- Ethical problem solving presentation (40%)
- Case study essay (35%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- MUR-HCM-MAS-2025 - Master of Health Care Management
- MUR-HMG-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Health Care Management
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MUR-SHP510U (Not currently available)
Others
Enrolment in a Graduate 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.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.
Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Master of Health Care Management
PostgraduateMUR-HCM-MAS
Graduate Certificate in Health Care Management
PostgraduateMUR-HMG-GCE