Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Coffs Harbour | ||
| Gold Coast | ||
| Lismore |
Unit description
Builds upon previous knowledge and skills to enable students to acquire an applied perspective on research and the principles of quality management and patient safety.
Unit content
- Introduction to quality management
- Quality assurance models in health care
- Strategies to improve health care
- Integrating patient preferences in planning quality care
- Utilising research to promote patient safety
- Utilising research to identify health care issues
- Incident reporting and analysis
- Patient safety and sentinel events
- Evidence-based practice and quality health outcomes
- Evidence-based practice and systematic reviews
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: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | analyse contemporary models of quality assurances and how they promote quality health care |
| 2 | analyse strategies, including research used, to identify and address patient safety risks |
| 3 | evaluate evidence-based interventions in promoting quality patient care |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- analyse contemporary models of quality assurances and how they promote quality health care
- analyse strategies, including research used, to identify and address patient safety risks
- evaluate evidence-based interventions in promoting quality patient care
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
For information regarding Student Contribution Amounts please visit the Student Contribution Amounts.
Fee paying courses
For postgraduate or undergraduate full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
Please check the international course and fee list to determine the relevant fees.