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This Masters degree will expand your knowledge and skills in administrative and management foundations, while ensuring relevance to contemporary health care provision.Graduates of the Master of Leadership and Management in Healthcare students will be able to:<ul><li>evaluate issues and challenges that confront the industry, health care professionals and consumers of their services</li><li>conceptualise new and creative approaches to health care administration to support service delivery in diverse health care settings</li><li>connect theory, practice and research within healthcare</li><li>examine the ethical aspects of personal, professional, social, cultural, environmental and institutional changes within contemporary health care delivery and respond to such changes</li><li>reflect on options and opportunities to enhance professional practice in contemporary local, regional and global health care contexts</li><li>contribute to values-based professional practice in dynamic and challenging environments.</li></ul>The Master of Leadership and Management in Healthcare has been designed to have minimum duration of 1.5 years full-time or equivalent part-time.

Become an ethical, effective health leader. Prepare for work in the public, private or not-for-profit sector. Understand strategic development, and help to work towards delivering culturally safe, resource-efficient health care.

Master of Leadership and Management in Health Care

Aged Care Leadership and Management: Effective Internal and External Integration

This course provides learners with an opportunity to explore coaching and supervision models across the professions.The course will address specific challenges facing clinical supervisors, particularly in relation to optimising teaching and learning in clinical settings. By exploring best practice, as leaders, the course considers principles that underpin effective mentoring and role modelling in the context of the clinical setting.

Coaching and Supervision in Health

This subject allows students to develop the methodological framework and tools by which to undertake a translational research project addressing a contemporary healthcare management issue. Students will conceptualise and prepare their project applying the values and principles of research integrity, considering risk, benefit and consent issues. Students will gain the skills to appraise the application and matching of methods to research questions. Students will have opportunities to hear from experts across Australia and participate in industry case studies and analysis.

Research Methods in Health Management

Theories of regulation, governance and national standards for accreditation are reviewed to provide a foundation for organisational management requirements and clinical systems for effective, sustainable high-quality healthcare. Healthcare organisations need for effective understanding of and approaches to risk management, interprofessional practice and continuous quality improvement are reviewed. Analysis will investigate the effectiveness of clinical governance systems for assessing, monitoring, and improving management and clinical systems. To operationalise these requirements, this subject reviews the overarching National Model Clinical Governance Framework (NMCGF) and National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards to determine appropriate systems for clinical governance, accountability and clinical performance and effectiveness. This involves the review and application of the NSQHS Clinical Governance Standard.

Clinical Governance in Health Care

This subject introduces the students to key management strategies including management skills, conflict resolution, change management and team building. Topics such as development of leadership capability, leadership development techniques and coaching are included in this subject. The relevant application of leadership theories in this context will also be examined.

Management

This subject of study will enable the student to consolidate understanding and application of the methods and instruments that form the foundation for monitoring quality and safety of healthcare delivery ensuring optimal outcomes. Students will analyse the leadership and organisational factors integral to the development of a strong clinical governance framework. Knowledge gained in this course will equip students to strengthen clinical governance frameworks and patient safety processes in many and varied health services and settings. Deep exploration of clinical governance undertaken in this course will empower students to ensure that quality healthcare standards are maintained and to become agents of change for the benefit of patients, colleagues and healthcare systems.

Clinical Governance

This subject consolidates students’ previous experience and knowledge of key leadership strategies including leadership skills/attributes of a good leader, performance development and team building. Students will be able to apply leadership development strategies such as leadership styles within their work environment.

Leadership Development Strategies in Health

This subject provides learners with an opportunity to explore key contemporary issues facing health professional educators and leaders as we traverse the changing learning and healthcare landscape.Established principles pertaining to leading organisational change are explored to consider strategies and innovation in the way in which we plan and deliver educational change to improve established practices in health professional education.

Contemporary Issues in Health Professional Education and Leadership

This subject will enable students to appraise the theory, practice and process for achieving safety and quality in healthcare organisations. The subject focuses on identifying quality management processes, practices and tools for the review and improvement of healthcare delivery. Additionally, strategies and mechanisms for safety and risk management will be identified and evaluated. The focus will be on how managers engage healthcare professionals, patients and the community to deliver safety and quality requirements. The subject identifies tools and implementation requirements of legislative regulations and professional practices. Students will have opportunities to hear from experts across Australia and participate in industry case studies and analysis.

Safety in Health Service Management

This subject investigates management concepts and theories to improve the integration and functionality of healthcare organisations. Strategies to improve the management of an organisation for enhanced care quality and equitable services will be discussed. A range of management issues are examined including leadership, strategic planning, change, and stakeholder behaviour. These issues are considered at the individual, team, and organisational levels and how they interact. Students will have opportunities to hear from experts across Australia and participate in industry case studies and analysis.

Leading and Managing Healthcare Organisations

This subject investigates theories and strategies for managing and improving complex adaptive healthcare organisations. Models of healthcare organisations will be introduced to analyse their structure, functions, processes and limitations. Complex adaptive systems thinking will be applied to healthcare organisations to understand their actions and points of resistance. Organisational theory will be used to analyse and interpret opportunities and constraints for service delivery. Mechanisms for achieving change through using a range of theories will be reviewed, including complexity and implementation sciences, organisational resilience, reliability and human factors. Students will have opportunities to hear from experts across Australia and participate in industry case studies and analysis.[Special Note: this subject is offered in odd-numbered years only.]

Managing Complex Adaptive Healthcare Organisations

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