Management in Health and Human Services

About this subject

• What you'll learn

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

  1. Evaluate complex legal and ethical issues in the health and human service context.
  2. Articulate and defend positions on a range of clinical/service delivery issues at the intersection of healthcare policy, law and ethics in a respectful manner that acknowledges contrasting perspectives.
  3. Critically reflect on health system policy development and implementation including the impact on your workplace.
  4. Apply strategic and financial management principles to the management of health and human services and consider their impact
  5. Critically reflect upon your own managerial practice related to using strategic management principles to resolve legal, ethical and professional issues arising in clinical practice, service delivery, and community development.

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• 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:

Core

• TAS-AOP-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
• TAS-AOP-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Individual Study 8 hours weekly; Independent Learning 2 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.

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