The Quality Culture and Implementing Quality Improvements
PostgraduateTAS-CNA4202025
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,780
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
The Quality Culture and Implementing Quality Improvements
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- Evaluate theoretical frameworks in relation to organisational quality and safety culture
- Critique organisational cultures to identify barriers and enablers impacting quality improvements
- Apply models and tools to support implementation of quality improvement initiatives and organisational culture change
- Analyse organisational culture and relevant data to articulate implementation of quality improvement initiatives and organisational change.
- Introduction to organisational culture
- One or many cultures?
- Cultural barriers - clinicians and managers
- Cultural barriers to consumer patient centred care (CPCC), bullying cultures and cultural competence
- Introducing safety cultures
- Safety cultures in Australia
- Origins of "The" Quality Culture
- Quality cultures in healthcare settings
- Measuring climate and culture
- Sources of surveys measuring components of quality change
- Safety II, resilience engineering and introducing organisational cultural change
- Planning to modify organisational culture in healthcare organisations
- Quality culture and implementing quality improvements, and the role of leaders
You will acquire knowledge about workplace culture and its impact on quality service delivery, factors that facilitate or act as barriers to the development of a quality culture in the workplace and apply this knowledge to critically analyse workplace scenarios.
- Oral Presentation (25%)
- Online Posts and Discussions (25%)
- Measuring Organisational Climate Report (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-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
- TAS-AQS-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: You are expected to devote around 10 hours per week to the study materials, assessment tasks and self-directed learning. Online webinar - 1 hour webinar, 3 times per semester
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