School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Managing a Changing Environment in Nursing Education
  • Unit Code

    CCE6100
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Deborah SUNDIN

Description

This unit examines change management as a strategy in the clinical setting, which involves: planning, tracking and managing processes in order to effect change in the health care environment. This unit aims to equip students with the ability to operate as change agents in order to lead and manage the change process.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise the process of change in the clinical setting.
  2. Conceptualise a sustainable change management project which is culturally and ethically sound.
  3. Critically evaluate a comprehensive review of change management theories.
  4. Design a standard format for a change management plan.
  5. Design resistance to change strategies in the clinical setting.
  6. Implement appropriate models for change in the health care environment.
  7. Produce evidence of collaborative and productive relationships with all members of the multi-professional team.
  8. Synthesise leadership for change strategies in the clinical setting both at local and international level.

Unit Content

  1. Change management models and theories.
  2. Change management plans.
  3. Communicating change.
  4. Project management.
  5. Resistance to change.
  6. The change process.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online study modules, discussion boards, online tutorials and guided reading.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayConcepts of Change Management30%
AssignmentPlanning for Change 30%
ReportChange management strategies 40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Managing a Changing Environment in Nursing Education
  • Unit Code

    CCE6100
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Deborah SUNDIN

Description

This unit examines change management as a strategy in the clinical setting, which involves: planning, tracking and managing processes in order to effect change in the health care environment. This unit aims to equip students with the ability to operate as change agents in order to lead and manage the change process.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise the process of change in the clinical setting.
  2. Conceptualise a sustainable change management project which is culturally and ethically sound.
  3. Critically evaluate a comprehensive review of change management theories.
  4. Design a standard format for a change management plan.
  5. Design resistance to change strategies in the clinical setting.
  6. Implement appropriate models for change in the health care environment.
  7. Produce evidence of collaborative and productive relationships with all members of the multi-professional team.
  8. Synthesise leadership for change strategies in the clinical setting both at local and international level.

Unit Content

  1. Change management models and theories.
  2. Change management plans.
  3. Communicating change.
  4. Project management.
  5. Resistance to change.
  6. The change process.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online study modules, discussion boards, online tutorials and guided reading.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayConcepts of Change Management30%
AssignmentPlanning for Change 30%
ReportChange management strategies 40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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