GHS9850

Nursing practice and management

(MED)

Mr G Doolan & Dr L Heslop

12 points + 8 hours per week + Second semester + Gippsland (off campus distributed learning) + Peninsula (mixed mode)

Synopsis: The unit gives nursing graduates a program, which combines a strong theoretical and practical focus to health services management. The several topics on management and administration include: change and organisational structures; power, authority and politics, leadership; people in health service organisation, change and organisational effectiveness. Flexible delivery mode includes optional seminars, which assist the student with applied skills such as quality assurance and best practice models, managing budgets, managing programs, the preparation of business plans and quality improvement plans and program evaluation.

Assessment: Three assignments: 30%, 20%, 50%