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MAP5003

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 27 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

12 points, SCA Band 2, 0.250 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

School of Rural Health

Coordinator(s)

Dr Elica Ristevski

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Online)
  • Second semester 2016 (Online)

Synopsis

This unit is designed for health care professionals who aspire to lead the management, design and delivery of health care services and/or develop health care programs in a clinical context that improve patient outcomes.

This unit focuses on the necessary knowledge, skills and behaviours for advanced health care practice. The unit examines key issues for the advanced health care professional, including:

  1. medico-legal issues in compliance, competency, and credentialing;
  2. professional behaviour and interprofessional practice;
  3. using research frameworks and clinical practice guidelines as evidence to inform practice;
  4. quality, patient safety, patient experiences, and benchmarking;
  5. delivering and evaluating patient and consumer centred health care and communication within digital and practice settings;
  6. the advanced practitioner as educator of patients, consumers and peers and
  7. leadership in implementing practice change.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Examine the roles and medico-legal responsibilities of advanced health care practitioners within their professional settings;
  2. Differentiate between ethical, inter-professional and cultural dimensions of professional behaviour;
  3. Examine the use of information and communication technology in advanced health care practice ;
  4. Review risk management strategies and plans for the prevention of adverse events;
  5. Apply benchmarking and patient experience studies to quality improvements;
  6. Apply principles of implementation science to lead change within health care practice;
  7. Apply evidence summaries and clinical practice guidelines to the review and implementation of complex health care interventions;
  8. Design an evaluation plan to investigate the outcomes and effectiveness of a complex health care intervention or practice;
  9. Design learner-centered educational activities appropriate to their practice setting.

Assessment

Critical incident report (1000 words) (10%)
iSAP Integrating Science and Practice (2000 words) (20%)
Case study review (1500 words) (10%)
Discussion forum (1500 words) (10%)(Hurdle)
Evidence review (2500 words) (25%)(Hurdle)
Learning and teaching plan (3000 words) (25%)(Hurdle)

Workload requirements

24 hours/week

For this distance education unit, students are expected to undertake their work during private study time.
Students will be expected to log onto Moodle on a regular basis for announcements and updates.
Students will need to undertake readings (available via Moodle) and view online materials (e.g. PowerPoint/audio/visual material). Students will also be required to undertake regular formative activities.
Students will be required to undertake all assessment activities as these are all hurdle requirements to ensure that all learning objectives are covered.
The assessments will require preparation ranging from readings, writing and undertaking online activities (quizzes and forum discussions).

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Elica Ristevski

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Health science