Leading and Managing Change in Health and Human Services

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:

  1. Evaluate personal and broader societal factors that impact on the success of change initiatives within health and human service settings including culture, community attitudes, evidence-based practice, quality and safety systems and governance.
  2. Critically analyse change management and change leadership approaches including impacts on system change, uptake of evidence-based practice, and service innovation in health and human services.
  3. Apply appropriate change tools and techniques to plan, implement and evaluate a change initiative in the health and human service sector.
  4. Critically evaluate the leadership implications of change initiatives in health and human services and communicate this effectively in a specific context.

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• Textbooks

• About University of Tasmania

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Elective

• TAS-AWP-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
• TAS-AMS-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
• TAS-HSI-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-CDP-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
• TAS-AQS-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
• TAS-AWP-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
• TAS-AMS-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
• TAS-HSI-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-CDP-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
• TAS-AQS-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Teaching Arrangements: Individual Study 8 hours weekly; Independent Learning 2 hours weekly.

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.

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