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. Analyse the broader societal factors impacting on change within health and human service settings including culture, community attitudes, evidence-based practice, quality and safety systems and governance.
  2. Critically examine change management theories and models and how they impact on system change and uptake of evidence-based practice and service innovation in health and human services.
  3. Analyse the intersection between the drivers of change and change readiness at an individual, organisational and system level.
  4. Critically examine the role of leadership in managing change and successful diffusion of innovation in health and human service settings.
  5. Develop strategies for applying successful change management and service innovation diffusion in health and human services including critical self-reflection on the implications for professional practice.

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• Assessments

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

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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