Overview

To view overview information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Academic contacts

To view unit coordinator information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2023-ONGOING
OUA-S1-EXT-2020-ONGOING
OUA-S2-EXT-2019-ONGOING

To view more information about assessments, contacts and learning activities specific to one of these offerings, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Requisites

Exclusion

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in a Graduate course.

Other learning activities

To view other learning activity information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Learning activities

To view learning activity information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Learning outcomes

1.

Apply the concepts of quality, safety and risk management in health care.

2.

Explain the impact of systems and human interactions on the likelihood of errors and adverse events.

3.

Use reflective learning to identify and manage clinical risk, investigate errors, and utilise data to improve patient safety.

4.

Apply current evidence to examine the opportunities for consumers to contribute to safety and quality in healthcare.

5.

Demonstrate the application of methods and tools that can be used to measure and improve quality of care in evidence-based practice.

Assessments

To view assessment information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Additional information

Unit content:

This is an introductory unit and as such focuses on developing an understanding of the principles that underpin quality and safety. Other units are designed to build on this introductory unit to further explore leadership, management and governance systems and processes that underpin effective quality and safety strategies within healthcare.