Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
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| 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
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Introduction to quality management
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Quality assurance models in health care
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Strategies to improve health care
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Integrating patient preferences in planning quality care
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Utilising research to promote patient safety
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Utilising research to identify health care issues
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Incident reporting and analysis
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Patient safety and sentinel events
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Evidence-based practice and quality health outcomes
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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: |
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| 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
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.