Managing Complex Adaptive Healthcare Organisations
Postgraduate
TAS-BAA757 2025Course information for 2025 intake
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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
Managing Complex Adaptive Healthcare Organisations
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Develop knowledge of complex adaptive system theories and implementation sciences.
- Evaluate how individual, teams and organisations approach service improvement and change.
- Critique organisational, team and individual actions that promote or detract from resilience and reliability.
- Distinguish complexity and implementation sciences and their application to healthcare organisations.
- Conceptualise and judge the effectiveness of human factors theory to manage organisations.
- Module 1: Theories and Strategies for Understanding Healthcare Organisations
- Module 2: Complexity and Implementation Sciences
- Module 3: Organisational Resilience and Healthcare Reliability
- Module 4: Human Factors for Improving Healthcare Organisations
This subject investigates theories and strategies for managing and improving complex adaptive healthcare organisations. Models of healthcare organisations will be introduced to analyse their structure, functions, processes and limitations. Complex adaptive systems thinking will be applied to healthcare organisations to understand their actions and points of resistance. Organisational theory will be used to analyse and interpret opportunities and constraints for service delivery. Mechanisms for achieving change through using a range of theories will be reviewed, including complexity and implementation sciences, organisational resilience, reliability and human factors. Students will have opportunities to hear from experts across Australia and participate in industry case studies and analysis.
[Special Note: this subject is offered in odd-numbered years only.]
Students are required to be familiar with all module content by the end of week 10, as assignments will draw on all modules.
- Essay (30%)
- Presentation (30%)
- Proposal (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-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-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-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
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 Certificate in Advanced Practice
Postgraduate
TAS-ADP-GCEGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
Postgraduate
TAS-AQS-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
Postgraduate
TAS-CDP-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
Postgraduate
TAS-APD-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
Postgraduate
TAS-ADH-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Governance)
Postgraduate
TAS-APG-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
Postgraduate
TAS-AHE-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
Postgraduate
TAS-HSI-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
Postgraduate
TAS-APH-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
Postgraduate
TAS-AMS-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
Postgraduate
TAS-AOP-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
Postgraduate
TAS-AOR-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Strategic Communication)
Postgraduate
TAS-ASC-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
Postgraduate
TAS-SCL-GDIGraduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
Postgraduate
TAS-AWP-GDIMaster of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
Postgraduate
TAS-AQS-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
Postgraduate
TAS-CDP-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
Postgraduate
TAS-APD-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
Postgraduate
TAS-ADH-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Governance)
Postgraduate
TAS-APG-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
Postgraduate
TAS-AHE-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
Postgraduate
TAS-HSI-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
Postgraduate
TAS-APH-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
Postgraduate
TAS-AMS-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
Postgraduate
TAS-AOP-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
Postgraduate
TAS-AOR-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Strategic Communication)
Postgraduate
TAS-ASC-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
Postgraduate
TAS-SCL-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
Postgraduate
TAS-AWP-MAS