GHS5850 Nursing leadership and patient safety

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Critically analyse leadership and management theories relevant to nursing and their application to nursing practice

2. 2

   Evaluate clinical leadership readiness and related skill sets of nurses in practice

3. 3

   Explore and analyse the impact of nursing leadership and management to patient safety and care quality

4. 4

   Discuss how clinical risk, near misses, errors and risk assessment and incident monitoring promote a culture of patient safety and care quality

5. 5

   Analyse and apply risk management principles to identify, assess and report potential risks in healthcare delivery

6. 6

   Critically analyse the components of governance within healthcare contexts in relation to patient safety and care quality

7. 7

   Critique approaches and techniques for improving patient safety and care quality in contemporary nursing practice

8. 8

   Critically examine risk management plans in service delivery for inclusion of concepts of safety, quality and clinical governance

9. 9

   Critique the effectiveness of a range of continuous quality improvement strategies for the purpose of risk reduction in the clinical setting

10. 10

    Formulate strategies to address an identified risk in health care delivery using a continuous quality improvement process