Reflective Practice in Health Management
PostgraduateMUR-SHP6042025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
Become an advocate for self-awareness and interpersonal skills. Learn the power of communication in influencing and persuading those around you. Lift a mirror to your management style – including your beliefs, experiences and background.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 15 weeks
- Price from
- $2,160
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Reflective Practice in Health Management
About this subject
On successful completion of the subject you should be able to:
- Illustrate the origins of reflective practice, describe models and frameworks for critical reflection, and practice reflective writing skills
- Interpret the relationship between reflective practice and emotional intelligence, ethics and values, professionalism, and professional development
- Evaluate the application of reflective practice to communication and supervision in the context of healthcare leadership and management
- Communicate knowledge of the role of reflective practice in lifelong learning and healthcare research
- Apply reflective practice, leadership and management theory, and current research to practice, and critically reflect upon performance to improve skills
- Origins of Reflective Practice & Models for Critical Reflection
- Reflective Writing
- Ethics and Values in Reflective Practice
- Reflective Practice and Emotional Intelligence
- Reflective Leaders and Managers
- Reflective Leadership and Management
- Professionalism and Professional Development
- Supervising the Reflective Practitioner and Mentoring
- Reflective Practice as an Organisation
- Research and Life Long Learning
This subject focuses on reflective practice as an essential component of effective leadership and management. It explores the importance of self-awareness, and the interpersonal processes associated with effective communication, influence and persuasion. Frameworks for critical reflection are examined in the context of professionalism, supervision, lifelong learning, and research in the health care setting. Students will have the opportunity to examine how their beliefs, perceptions, experiences and backgrounds influence their ability to lead and manage.
Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.
The assessment components of this unit include a Reflective Journal (30%), a Reflective Development Review (40%) and Online Discussion Forums (30%). Assessment in this unit is used to provide opportunity for students to demonstrate knowledge and understanding, analysis and evaluation skills, and critical reflection and application of theoretical concepts to practice. Additionally, these assessments allow students to further develop academic and professional communication skills. Detailed feedback is provided on all pieces of assessment to facilitate student learning and achievement of unit learning outcomes.
ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUM: Throughout the semester students are expected to actively contribute to the discussion topic that will be posted on the discussion board (3 x Discussion Boards). The unit coordinator will moderate the discussion. The rationale for your engagement in these on-line discussions is to make use of the rich and varied industry experience that each of you have, applied to the information gained in these modules. Your learning will benefit from each other's thoughts, experiences, insights and opinions. The intent of these on-line discussions is for you to have the opportunity to consider the responses to the discussion topics that other students have contributed in a critical and reflective manner rather than simply passing over the modules quickly without allowing time for some deeper learning to occur.
REFLECTIVE JOURNAL: Four Reflective Journal Entries (600 words each).
REFLECTIVE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW: This assessment once completed can be used by students in their personal professional portfolios. In this unit, individually, students will conduct a personal leadership development review. Working with the workplace mentor, students will review their performance and produce a plan for development in their leadership journey. Students will need to source a suitable senior manager within their workplace to act as a mentor, this must be approved by the unit coordinator. This 3000 word report will need to address the following areas and demonstrate significant analysis of performance against the literature and the implications of this:
1. Personal evaluation of performance
2. Personal performance against the instrument scores
3. Performance compared to your observer scores
4. Leadership development plan
5. Review of mentor relationship
6. Reflective learning throughout the journey
Students are expected to use references and contemporary literature to support their assertions in the report. Students will need to meet with the unit coordinator (in person or via Skype) during the latter half of the semester to discuss their progress in their development journey. The report should be written in an academic style and APA 6th edition referencing where required. As this assessment is centred on personal growth and reflection, writing in the first person is acceptable. Students are encouraged to use tables, graphs and other diagrammatic representations within their work to support their claims and will be required to submit a copy of their Leadership Development Review as an appendix to the report.- Online Discussion Forum (30%)
- Reflective Journal (30%)
- Reflective Development Review (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- MUR-HCM-MAS-2025 - Master of Health Care Management
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Master of Health Care Management
PostgraduateMUR-HCM-MAS