NUR5212 · Health professional leadership during disasters

Overview

This unit introduces you to disaster health management and the role of leadership within the multidisciplinary healthcare workforce during a disaster incident. In this unit you will examine effective health professional leadership decision–making, and review government policies and guidelines including risk assessment and business continuity planning. You will also explore disaster preparedness in multiple healthcare settings, and gain an understanding of the importance of educating future health professionals in disaster preparedness.

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

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Select effective health professional leadership decision-making and risk-averse skills under the uncertainty of a low probability but high consequence disaster event.
2. Analyse how health professional leaders communicate during the challenges of crisis management and evaluate the effectiveness of the communication
3. Understand and apply government policies and guidelines that healthcare settings are required to use in their management for disaster events
4. Prioritise the requirements for Business Continuity planning in the context of disaster risk reduction
5. Discuss disaster preparedness of healthcare settings related to natural disasters climate change impacts
6. Promote educating future health professionals in disaster preparedness
7. Identify the concepts of the safe hospital index and apply these to any healthcare setting in a disaster event

Workload

12 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.