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Unit of Study PBHL5016 - Leading Change in Health Care (2023)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

An examination of change within health, social and community care settings. Enables participants to evaluate, examine and critically reflect on leadership knowledge and apply those capabilities to leading innovation within health, social and community care settings. Participants use a fusion of evidenced based approaches, intra-personal and inter-personal capabilities to evaluate innovative practices within their continually changing workplace.

Unit content

  • Contexts and mechanisms influencing innovation
  • Strategic policy and the implementation of innovation
  • Leading change and leadership models
  • Leadership theories and capabilities in leading innovative healthcare change 
  • Psychological constructs influencing implementation of innovation
  • Applying principles of evidence and evaluation to support innovative change within health, social and community settings

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
SCU Online
Term1,5
Term1,5

Learning outcomes

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:

explore the contexts of organisational environments to identify and respond to drivers supporting and negating opportunities for innovative change

apply a range of management and leadership theories to health, social and community services to critically explore the efficacy of each theory in achieving innovative change

propose innovative change framework in health, social and community care settings including planning, implementation and evaluation

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