Nursing leadership and patient safety

The Australian Registered Nurse Standards for Practice mandate that nurses should: participate in and/or lead collaborative practice; provide comprehensive, safe, quality practice; and contribute to quality improvement. In this unit you will examine nursing leadership and the safety and quality of patient care in the context of clinical nursing practice. You will critically analyse leadership theories and explore their relevance to clinical nursing leadership. You will also examine adverse events, risk management and continuous quality improvement in health care and the essential requirements for optimising patient safety and care quality.