Healthcare Systems, Safety and Quality

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:

  1. Appraise the role that leaders, managers, governing bodies, staff, consumers and the community have in delivering safe high quality healthcare services.
  2. Evaluate healthcare organisations' governance structures and the requirements for safety and quality systems.
  3. Critique safety and quality initiatives from healthcare and other industries nationally and internationally.
  4. Communicate solutions to address the challenges and barriers to safe, high quality healthcare systems.

• Topics covered

• Description

• 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:

Elective

• TAS-ADP-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Advanced Practice
• TAS-AQS-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
• TAS-CDP-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
• TAS-CUC-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
• TAS-APD-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
• TAS-ADH-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
• TAS-APG-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Governance)
• TAS-AHE-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
• TAS-HSI-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-APH-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
• TAS-AMS-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
• TAS-AOP-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
• TAS-AOR-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
• TAS-ASC-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Strategic Communication)
• TAS-SCL-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
• TAS-AWP-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
• TAS-AQS-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
• TAS-CDP-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
• TAS-CUC-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
• TAS-APD-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
• TAS-ADH-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
• TAS-APG-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
• TAS-AHE-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
• TAS-HSI-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-APH-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
• TAS-AMS-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
• TAS-AOP-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
• TAS-AOR-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
• TAS-ASC-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Strategic Communication)
• TAS-SCL-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
• TAS-AWP-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)

Additional requirements

• Software requirements - At UTAS, we use Turnitin and Grademark software to provide feedback on the assessments. Please visit the “useful resources for assessment” section on MyLO for more details on the use of software in this subject. EndNote reference manager program is required for managing references in this subject. This can be downloaded from the UTAS library: https://utas.libguides.com/endnote

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.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.