Clinical Governance in Health Care
PostgraduateTAS-BAA5432025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 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
Clinical Governance in Health Care
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Analyse implications of change, complexity, and ambiguity on health and work practices
- Apply clinical governance to the provision of high standards of safety and quality in healthcare
- Describe the relationship between principles of governance and legislature
- Module 1: Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement
- Module 2: Governance, Leadership and Culture
- Module 3: Patient Safety and Quality Systems (part 1)
- Module 4: Patient Safety and Quality Systems (part 2)
- Module 5: Content and Readings
- Module 6: Safe Environments for the Delivery of Care
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.
- ePoster Presentation (20%)
- Case Study (40%)
- Critical Reflection (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
- TAS-AQS-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
- TAS-AQS-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
Elective
- TAS-CPH-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Clinical Pharmacy
- TAS-CUC-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
- TAS-APG-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Governance)
- TAS-CUC-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
- TAS-APG-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
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
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
PostgraduateTAS-AQS-GDI
Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
PostgraduateTAS-AQS-MAS
Graduate Diploma of Clinical Pharmacy
PostgraduateTAS-CPH-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
PostgraduateTAS-CUC-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Governance)
PostgraduateTAS-APG-GDI
Master of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
PostgraduateTAS-CUC-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
PostgraduateTAS-APG-MAS