GHS5850 · Nursing leadership and patient safety

Overview

The Australian Registered Nurse Standards for Practice mandate that nurses should: participate in and/or lead collaborative practice; provide comprehensive, safe, quality practice; and contribute to quality improvement. In this unit you will examine nursing leadership and the safety and quality of patient care in the context of clinical nursing practice. You will critically analyse leadership theories and explore their relevance to clinical nursing leadership. You will also examine adverse events, risk management and continuous quality improvement in health care and the essential requirements for optimising patient safety and care quality.

Areas of study: Clinical midwifery Nursing Nursing leadership and management

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Critically analyse and apply leadership theories to nursing practice.
2. Critically evaluate your clinical leadership readiness and related skill sets.
3. Explore and analyse the impact of nursing leadership on patient safety and care quality.
4. Discuss how clinical risk, near misses, errors and risk assessment and incident monitoring promote a culture of patient safety and care quality.
5. Apply risk management principles to identify, assess and report potential risks in healthcare delivery.
6. Examine the evidence base for strategies to address the national health care priority areas.
7. Critique approaches and techniques for improving patient safety and health care quality.
8. Critically analyse issues in nursing practice that could benefit from the quality improvement process.
9. Formulate strategies to address an identified risk in health care delivery using a quality improvement process.
10. Demonstrate research literacy skills in searching and critically applying evidence in clinical leadership and safety.

Workload

24 hours per week of teacher facilitated and self-directed learning including tutorials and online activities. Please refer to Moodle for tutorial types and requirements.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.