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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

312274 (v.1) Leadership in Clinical Practice Improvement 692

Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Workshop: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: The unit will provide medical, clinical and other health practitioners with an understanding of the workings of modern health care systems, an understanding of key legal and clinical governance obligations for medical and clinical practitioners and improve their knowledge of contemporary patient safety and clinical quality systems in medical and acute care settings. Clinical and medical leaders will use specified international clinical leadership competency frameworks to further develop their personal and professional leadership skills and learn how to apply relevant leadership strategies including communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, facilitating change, team leadership and influencing skills to support implementation of patient safety and clinical quality in medical and health care settings.
Field of Education: 060100 Medical Studies (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External