GHS5850 Nursing leadership and patient safety
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
GHS5850 Nursing leadership and patient safety is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, offered in 2020 in Semester 1 and Semester 2 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2020
- Semester 1, Semester 2
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 4 tasks
- Workload
- 24 hours
- per semester
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before GHS5850
Corequisites
Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.
After GHS5850
No unit lists GHS5850 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Corequisite: Must be enrolled in one of the following course codes: 3966, M6016
Overview
This unit examines nursing leadership and the safety and quality of patient care in the context of clinical nursing practice. Students will critically analyse contemporary leadership theories and their relevance and application to clinical nursing leadership. The unit also explores adverse events, risk management and continuous quality improvement in health care and focuses on the essential requirements to understand how to optimise patient safety and care quality.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Clayton | On campus |
| Second semester | Clayton | On campus |
Assessment
- Active Learning Engagement10%
- Literature review (3,500 words)35%
- Written assignment (3,500 words)35%
- Class presentation (group work) (40 minutes)20%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Critically analyse leadership and management theories relevant to nursing and their application to nursing practice
- 2
Evaluate clinical leadership readiness and related skill sets of nurses in practice
- 3
Explore and analyse the impact of nursing leadership and management to patient safety and care quality
- 4
Discuss how clinical risk, near misses, errors and risk assessment and incident monitoring promote a culture of patient safety and care quality
- 5
Analyse and apply risk management principles to identify, assess and report potential risks in healthcare delivery
- 6
Critically analyse the components of governance within healthcare contexts in relation to patient safety and care quality
- 7
Critique approaches and techniques for improving patient safety and care quality in contemporary nursing practice
- 8
Critically examine risk management plans in service delivery for inclusion of concepts of safety, quality and clinical governance
- 9
Critique the effectiveness of a range of continuous quality improvement strategies for the purpose of risk reduction in the clinical setting
- 10
Formulate strategies to address an identified risk in health care delivery using a continuous quality improvement process
Workload and teaching
- Workshops30 hours
12 hours per week of teacher directed study, including a 3 hour workshop
12 hours per week of self-directed study
Total per week = 24 hours
Learning resources
Required resources
See Moodle for details about required resources.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Malcolm Elliott
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Malcolm Elliott
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for GHS5850?
None, but you must take NUR5004 before or alongside it.
When is GHS5850 offered?
In 2020, GHS5850 runs in Semester 1 and Semester 2 at Clayton.
How much work is GHS5850?
The handbook expects about 24 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does GHS5850 have an exam?
No. GHS5850 has 4 assessment tasks and no exam.