Healthcare Quality and Safety: A Patient-Centred Approach

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:

  1. Describe the various definitions of, and national and international frameworks supporting, healthcare quality and safety, and how they relate to current practice in healthcare systems;
  2. Apply theory, improvement methodologies and patient-centred frameworks to health system improvement problems;
  3. Discuss the importance and relevance of developing quality and safety initiatives, and how poor clinical governance and leadership systems can compromise patient safety;
  4. Identify and describe relevant assessment tools, data collection methods and analytical processes for quality and safety improvement in the health workplace;
  5. Appraise the critical roles of the organisation, the individual practitioner and the patient in quality and safety in healthcare.

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• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About University of Tasmania

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• TAS-APG-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Governance)
• TAS-HSI-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-APG-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
• TAS-HSI-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)

Elective

• TAS-CPH-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Clinical Pharmacy

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Tutorial (online webinar) 1 hour weekly; Independent learning 8 hours weekly

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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