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Unit of Study NRS30001 - Utilising Research to Promote Quality in Health Care (2015)

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Unit description

Builds upon the knowledge and skills provided in Research and Evidenced Based Practice to enable students to acquire an applied perspective on research and the principles of quality management and patient safety.

Unit content

  • Introduction to quality management
  • Quality assurance models in health care
  • Strategies to improve health care
  • The use of DRGs and clinical pathways in health care
  • Integrating patient preferences in planning quality care
  • Utilizing research to promote patient safety
  • Utilizing research to identify health care issues
  • Epidemiology & patient safety
  • Incident reporting & analysis
  • Patient safety & sentinel events
  • Evidence based practice & quality health outcomes
  • Evidence based practice & Systematic reviews

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 1 Session 1
Gold Coast Session 1 Session 1
Lismore Session 1 Session 1

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Analyse contemporary models of quality assurances and how they promote quality health care
2 Analyse the strategies to identify and address patient safety risks
3 Analyse research strategies used to identify patient safety risks
4 Apply evidence-based interventions in promoting quality patient care

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Analyse contemporary models of quality assurances and how they promote quality health care
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
  2. Analyse the strategies to identify and address patient safety risks
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA5:
  3. Analyse research strategies used to identify patient safety risks
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA5:
  4. Apply evidence-based interventions in promoting quality patient care
    • GA1:
    • GA5:

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