NURS28012 - Leadership in Healthcare

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit provides an opportunity to examine leadership in healthcare, drawing on foundational concepts of leadership and their application in healthcare. This unit builds on generic leadership theory and facilitates translation to sector-specific application. The unit focuses on both personal and professional development and effectiveness. Throughout the unit, you will analyse various leadership theories, styles, and approaches, examining their relevance and impact within healthcare systems, and other systems, services, and teams. You will evaluate the capabilities necessary for effective leadership in healthcare and explore strategies to develop these including those that foster collaboration, drive change and promote systemic improvements and innovation in healthcare. Additionally, you will reflect on and discuss strategies to lead and negotiate change, ensuring smooth and beneficial transitions for all stakeholders. Finally, we will critically analyse contemporary and future challenges for healthcare leadership, considering the global context and the evolving role of leaders in a rapidly changing industry. This includes the need to anticipate, prepare for, and adapt to emerging trends and challenges amid technological, economic, social and environmental shifts. By the end of this unit, you will have a comprehensive understanding of leadership in healthcare, applicable across a range of healthcare systems and settings.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band 7
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Online Quiz(zes) 10%
2. Case Study 40%
3. Reflective Practice Assignment 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Analyse leadership theories, styles and approaches and their impact in healthcare
  2. Evaluate capabilities and strategies to effectively lead healthcare systems, services and teams
  3. Examine day to day leadership practices that facilitate safe quality healthcare
  4. Reflect on and discuss strategies to lead and negotiate change in healthcare contexts
  5. Critically analyse contemporary and future challenges for leaders in healthcare contexts.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Online Quiz(zes) • • •
2 - Case Study • • • • •
3 - Reflective Practice Assignment • • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Knowledge • • • • •
2 - Communication • •
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills • • •
4 - Research • •
5 - Self-management •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility • • •
7 - Leadership • • • • •
8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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