GHS5850 Nursing leadership and patient safety

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

1. 1

   Critically analyse and apply leadership theories to nursing practice.

2. 2

   Critically evaluate your clinical leadership readiness and related skill sets.

3. 3

   Explore and analyse the impact of nursing leadership on 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

   Apply risk management principles to identify, assess and report potential risks in healthcare delivery.

6. 6

   Examine the evidence base for strategies to address the national health care priority areas.

7. 7

   Critique approaches and techniques for improving patient safety and health care quality.

8. 8

   Critically analyse issues in nursing practice that could benefit from the quality improvement process.

9. 9

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

10. 10

    Demonstrate research literacy skills in searching and critically applying evidence in clinical leadership and safety.