Monitoring and Measuring Performance
PostgraduateTAS-CNA4192026
Course information for 2026 intake View information for 2025 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 28 June 2026
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Price from
- $2,919
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Monitoring and Measuring Performance
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- Critically review quality and safety issues and frameworks to measure and monitor health services performance.
- Apply evidence-based methods to make judgements about systems performance and quality and safety issues.
- Examine relevant methods to collect and analyse data and communicate improvement opportunities to key stakeholders.
- Integrate and apply theoretical frameworks that support knowledge creation and the quantification of system performance.
- Introduction
- What to Measure and Monitor
- How to Measure and Monitor Performance
- Tools for Measurement
- How to Measure and Monitor Performance (2)
- Waste and Value
- Collecting the Data (Sampling)
- Can you Trust the Data?
- Waste and Value
- Developing an Improvement Report
- Using the Data (Root Cause Analysis)
- Statistical Process Control
- Maintaining Performance
Students completing this subject will have acquired knowledge about monitoring and measuring performance within a quality framework and apply knowledge of monitoring and measuring the quality of performance in complex simulated work environments.
- Root Cause Analysis Report (50%)
- Improvement Plan (50%)
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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
- TAS-AQS-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
- TAS-AQS-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
Elective
- TAS-AOP-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
- TAS-AOP-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
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.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
PostgraduateTAS-AQS-GDI
Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
PostgraduateTAS-AQS-MAS
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
PostgraduateTAS-AOP-GDI
Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
PostgraduateTAS-AOP-MAS