Communicating Safety and Quality in Healthcare
PostgraduateTAS-BAA5452024
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Communicating Safety and Quality in Healthcare
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Apply legal and ethical frameworks, policies and procedures to clinical safety and quality
- Evaluate, plan, and initiate effective clinical safety, quality and accountability
- Critically review the key principles of communicating for safety for clinical accountability within the healthcare context
- Module 1: Clinical governance - Communicating for Safety
- Module 2: Correct Identification and Procedures
- Module 3: Communication, action, response
- Module 4: Communication of critical information
- Module 5: Documentation of information
- Module 6: Quality improvement approaches
The organisational resilience and communication fields of knowledge provide frameworks to review clinical governance arrangements. Additionally, quality improvement theory, techniques and approaches are addressed to equip professionals with the practical skills to enhance safe, high-quality care. This knowledge is used to investigate how to achieve effective performance and monitoring systems.
To operationalise these requirements, this subject investigates the application of the National Safety and Quality in Health Service (NSQHS) Communicating for Safety and Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration Blood Safety Management Standards. Their necessity and integration with other standards in the NSQHS are also reviewed.
- Critical reflection (40%)
- ePoster Presentation (20%)
- Case Study (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:
Elective
- TAS-CPH-GDI-2024 - Graduate Diploma of Clinical Pharmacy
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to 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
Graduate Diploma of Clinical Pharmacy
PostgraduateTAS-CPH-GDI