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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Unit aim
Builds upon previous knowledge and skills 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
- Integrating patient preferences in planning quality care
- Utilising research to promote patient safety
- Utilising research to identify health care issues
- Incident reporting and analysis
- Patient safety and sentinel events
- Evidence-based practice and quality health outcomes
- Evidence-based practice and systematic reviews
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: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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| 1 | analyse contemporary models of quality assurances and how they promote quality health care | |||||||
| 2 | analyse strategies, including research used, to identify and address patient safety risks | |||||||
| 3 | evaluate evidence-based interventions in promoting quality patient care | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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analyse contemporary models of quality assurances and how they promote quality health care
- GA1:
- GA2:
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analyse strategies, including research used, to identify and address patient safety risks
- GA1:
- GA2:
- GA5:
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evaluate evidence-based interventions in promoting quality patient care
- GA1:
- GA5:
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.