Aged Care Leadership and Management: Effective Internal and External Integration
PostgraduateTAS-BAA5422025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,780
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Aged Care Leadership and Management: Effective Internal and External Integration
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of current concepts in leadership, management, and planning as it relates to aged care
- Communicate and reflect on your own leadership and management skills in an aged care context
- Apply leadership theories to managing people and change in aged care settings
- Plan for lifelong learning as leaders
- Module 1: External and Internal Integration in Aged Care Organisations
- Topic 1: Introduction, Leadership and Management Positioning in your Organisation
- Topic 2: Linking the Future and Management
- Topic 3: Outside-In or Inside-Out of the Organisation
- Topic 4: Organisational Plans
- Module 2: Making Choices (things to consider in aged care management before leaders decide)
- Topic 1: Introduction, the Historical Development of Leadership
- Topic 2: Introduction to Groups and Teams
- Topic 3: Leadership and Innovation in Health Care
- Topic 4: Leadership and Ethics
- Topic 5: Leadership and Marketing
- Module 3: Leading Change Processes
- Topic 1: Introduction
- Topic 2: Planned Change
- Topic 3: Emergent Change Summary
This subject will critically examine the processes and activities to identify, monitor and improve key elements of aged care organisational functioning, within complex health networks. A review and critique of governance arrangements, including accountability and transparency requirements for staff, managers and boards will be undertaken. Requirements for performance metrics, organisational and clinical outcomes and reporting arrangements will be debated. Students will have opportunities to hear from experts across Australia and participate in industry case studies and analysis.
- Presentation (24%)
- Weekly Reflections (36%)
- Essay (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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