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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Managing Risk in the Clinical Environment
  • Unit Code

    PSR5101
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Carl Stewart YUILE

Description

Clinical risk management is important as it improves safety and enhances quality improvement within an organisation as it introduces systems that identifies and minimises the circumstances, which can put patients, and the wider multidisciplinary team at risk. Furthermore, it forms a major part of the organisation’s safety management system. This unit focuses on the Western Australian (WA) Department of Health’s Clinical Governance Framework, as well as the Federal Government’s Department of Health and Ageing key domains of clinical risk. Students will be expected to use case studies from their clinical workplace to consolidate their learning.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will involve flexible, on-line teaching and learning to integrate theory attained through this learning and applying it to their individual clinical setting to ensure authenticated assessment.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply an advanced level of theoretical knowledge of complex disease and aging processes, incorporating both intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors which may contribute to clinical risk.
  2. Critically analyse intervention and risk assessment strategies for managing clinical risk in both a national and international context and propose appropriate management strategies.
  3. Critically analyse a range of clinical risk assessment tools and discuss the appropriateness of the tool in the clinical area of students' practice.

Unit Content

  1. Principles of clinical risk management.
  2. Core concepts of disease and ageing processes which contribute to clinical risk
  3. Development, implementation and evaluation of clinical risk assessment tools.
  4. Federal Government Department of Health and Ageing key clinical risk indicators.
  5. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with clinical risk.
  6. Risk management health promotion.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will be required to be familiar with utilising multiple media (including internet, weblinks, wiki's, blogs, and university e-learning) as coursework will be delivered through e-learning. Additionally, students will be required to integrate their theoretical learning to their workplace (Work Integrated Learning) by working collaboratively with various members of their healthcare team, drawing exemplars and case studies to support their learning and authenticate assessment.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseDiscussion board post 120%
Reflective PracticeCritical reflection40%
EssayWritten essay40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseDiscussion board post 120%
Reflective PracticeCritical reflection40%
EssayWritten essay40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Managing Risk in the Clinical Environment
  • Unit Code

    PSR5101
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Carl Stewart YUILE

Description

Clinical risk management is important as it improves safety and enhances quality improvement within an organisation as it introduces systems that identifies and minimises the circumstances, which can put patients, and the wider multidisciplinary team at risk. Furthermore, it forms a major part of the organisation’s safety management system. This unit focuses on the Western Australian (WA) Department of Health’s Clinical Governance Framework, as well as the Federal Government’s Department of Health and Ageing key domains of clinical risk. Students will be expected to use case studies from their clinical workplace to consolidate their learning.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will involve flexible, on-line teaching and learning to integrate theory attained through this learning and applying it to their individual clinical setting to ensure authenticated assessment.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply an advanced level of theoretical knowledge of complex disease and aging processes, incorporating both intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors which may contribute to clinical risk.
  2. Critically analyse intervention and risk assessment strategies for managing clinical risk in both a national and international context and propose appropriate management strategies.
  3. Critically analyse a range of clinical risk assessment tools and discuss the appropriateness of the tool in the clinical area of students' practice.

Unit Content

  1. Principles of clinical risk management.
  2. Core concepts of disease and ageing processes which contribute to clinical risk
  3. Development, implementation and evaluation of clinical risk assessment tools.
  4. Federal Government Department of Health and Ageing key clinical risk indicators.
  5. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with clinical risk.
  6. Risk management health promotion.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will be required to be familiar with utilising multiple media (including internet, weblinks, wiki's, blogs, and university e-learning) as coursework will be delivered through e-learning. Additionally, students will be required to integrate their theoretical learning to their workplace (Work Integrated Learning) by working collaboratively with various members of their healthcare team, drawing exemplars and case studies to support their learning and authenticate assessment.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseDiscussion board post 120%
Reflective PracticeCritical reflection40%
EssayWritten essay40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseDiscussion board post 120%
Reflective PracticeCritical reflection40%
EssayWritten essay40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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