Aged Care Leadership and Management: Effective Internal and External Integration
UndergraduateTAS-BAA3422025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Aged Care Leadership and Management: Effective Internal and External Integration
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Explain current concepts in leadership and management theory as related to health and aged care
- Reflect on the styles and applications of leadership and management skills in an aged care context(s)
- Analyse how leadership theories can be applied to managing people in health and aged care settings
- Module 1: External and Internal Integration in Aged Care Organisations
- Topic 1: Introduction, Leadership and Management Positioning in your Organisation
- Topic 2: Linking the Future and Management
- Topic 3: Outside-In or Inside-Out of the Organisation
- Topic 4: Organisational Plans
- Module 2: Making Choices (things to consider in aged care management before leaders decide)
- Topic 1: Introduction, the Historical Development of Leadership
- Topic 2: Introduction to Groups and Teams
- Topic 3: Leadership and Innovation in Health Care
- Topic 4: Leadership and Ethics
- Topic 5: Leadership and Marketing
- Module 3: Leading Change Processes
- Topic 1: Introduction
- Topic 2: Planned Change
- Topic 3: Emergent Change Summary
This subject will critically examine the processes and activities to identify, monitor and improve key elements of aged care organisational functioning, within complex health networks. A review and critique of governance arrangements, including accountability and transparency requirements for staff, managers and boards will be undertaken. Requirements for performance metrics, organisational and clinical outcomes and reporting arrangements will be debated. Students will have opportunities to hear from experts across Australia and participate in industry case studies and analysis.
- Critique (36%)
- Presentation (24%)
- Essay (40%)
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Entry requirements
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Conditional Requisite: Complete 25 credit points at Intermediate level in any discipline
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 600 minutes of online learning per week.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
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