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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

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

    Strategic Clinical Leadership in Australian Health Care

  • Unit Code

    SCL7000

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    30

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

Strategic leadership is the ability to lead an organisation. A strategic leader is able to define and develop the purpose of the organisation, the key strategies, the optimum structure, the right people in the right roles, and the most effective processes for the organisation to succeed. This unit focuses on enhancing self-development of the participant, and explores the use of a variety of tools and interventions to enable clinical leaders to advance the necessary skills to set and maintain high standards of healthcare, to lead by example and to inspire, motivate and empower their teams.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply strategic thinking in the health care sector.
  2. Develop self awareness , emotional intelligence and apply a variety of leadership theories to change processes.
  3. Evaluate complex team situations and resources within the organisation to manage same.
  4. Evaluate service improvement, quality & risk.
  5. Evidence the implications of workforce issues
  6. Implement national and state health care reform.
  7. Initiate and direct the building of strategic partnerships & networks.
  8. Lead large organisational teams acknowledging diversity.

Unit Content

  1. Australian Health Care System.
  2. Building teams, partnerships and networks.
  3. Ethical Leadership.
  4. Service improvement, quality and risk.
  5. Strategic thinking & planning.
  6. Strategies for the challenges and critics in the healthcare setting.
  7. Talent Management.
  8. The power and types of strategic leadership.
  9. Workforce, planning & management.

Additional Learning Experience Information

All unit materials will be delivered through the attendance at an intensive teaching week at the beginning of semester. Materials are to be presented in the form of lectures, workshops and interactive activities and discussions. An e-learning package will be made available to all students after this intensive week for the remainder of the semester.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Reflective PracticeOrganisational Case Study
AssignmentCritical Analysis

Text References

  • ^ Handy, C. (1999). Understanding organizations (4th ed.). London: Penguin Books.
  • ^ Sampson, D., & Daft, R.L. (2012). Management (4th ed.). USA: Dryden Press.
  • Bishop, V. (2009). Leadership for nursing and allied health professionals. Cambridge; Open Press University.
  • Duckett, S.J. (2007). The Australian health care system (3rd ed.). London; Oxford University Press.
  • Robertson, E. (2010). Clinical leaders: heroes or heretics? New Yeor; World Publishing Co.

^ Mandatory reference

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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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

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

    Strategic Clinical Leadership in Australian Health Care

  • Unit Code

    SCL7000

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    30

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

Strategic leadership is the ability to lead an organisation. A strategic leader is able to define and develop the purpose of the organisation, the key strategies, the optimum structure, the right people in the right roles, and the most effective processes for the organisation to succeed. This unit focuses on enhancing self-development of the participant, and explores the use of a variety of tools and interventions to enable clinical leaders to advance the necessary skills to set and maintain high standards of healthcare, to lead by example and to inspire, motivate and empower their teams.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply strategic thinking in the health care sector.
  2. Develop self awareness , emotional intelligence and apply a variety of leadership theories to change processes.
  3. Evaluate complex team situations and resources within the organisation to manage same.
  4. Evaluate service improvement, quality & risk.
  5. Evidence the implications of workforce issues
  6. Implement national and state health care reform.
  7. Initiate and direct the building of strategic partnerships & networks.
  8. Lead large organisational teams acknowledging diversity.

Unit Content

  1. Australian Health Care System.
  2. Building teams, partnerships and networks.
  3. Ethical Leadership.
  4. Service improvement, quality and risk.
  5. Strategic thinking & planning.
  6. Strategies for the challenges and critics in the healthcare setting.
  7. Talent Management.
  8. The power and types of strategic leadership.
  9. Workforce, planning & management.

Additional Learning Experience Information

All unit materials will be delivered through the attendance at an intensive teaching week at the beginning of semester. Materials are to be presented in the form of lectures, workshops and interactive activities and discussions. An e-learning package will be made available to all students after this intensive week for the remainder of the semester.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Reflective PracticeOrganisational Case Study
AssignmentCritical Analysis

Text References

  • ^ Handy, C. (1999). Understanding organizations (4th ed.). London: Penguin Books.
  • ^ Sampson, D., & Daft, R.L. (2012). Management (4th ed.). USA: Dryden Press.
  • Bishop, V. (2009). Leadership for nursing and allied health professionals. Cambridge; Open Press University.
  • Duckett, S.J. (2007). The Australian health care system (3rd ed.). London; Oxford University Press.
  • Robertson, E. (2010). Clinical leaders: heroes or heretics? New Yeor; World Publishing Co.

^ Mandatory reference

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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