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Location | Domestic | International |
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Coffs Harbour | ||
Gold Coast | ||
Lismore |
Unit description
Provides opportunities for students to consolidate their learning on management and leadership concepts by further exploring how leadership and management theories apply to the nurse's role. Learning emphasises the development of personal leadership strategies in preparation for graduate practice.
Unit content
- Approaches and models of effective leadership
- Leadership communication skills - collaboration, negotiation and conflict resolution
- Decision making and coordination
- Teamwork, delegation and supervision
- Managing change
- Mentoring and staff development
- Health care systems and organisational culture
- Strategies to promote positive cultures
- Principles of care leadership
- Nurse sensitive quality indicators
- Case management and care coordination
- Preparation for PEP7
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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1 | analyse the major models of care management and leadership | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
2 | judge and apply professional and therapeutic communication skills to nursing leadership and care management | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
3 | critique the concepts of delegation, change management and conflict resolution management strategies | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | |||||
4 | demonstrate leadership concepts, skills and decision making required in the provision of quality nursing care, healthcare team coordination, and the accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- analyse the major models of care management and leadership
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- judge and apply professional and therapeutic communication skills to nursing leadership and care management
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- critique the concepts of delegation, change management and conflict resolution management strategies
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- demonstrate leadership concepts, skills and decision making required in the provision of quality nursing care, healthcare team coordination, and the accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings.
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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