Overview 2024
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Course objectives
The School of Health Sciences aims to create an educational environment which values critical, reflective thinking, life-long learning, acquisition of generic attributes and professional development.
The course provides students with an opportunity to advance knowledge and skills, to act as leaders in critical analysis, development, implementation and evaluation required for quality service redesign. The Master of Quality Services (Health and Safety) course objectives are to:
- develop students' advanced body of knowledge in the development and implementation of quality service management policy;
- equip students to design, implement and evaluate workplace change leading to a strengthened quality culture;
- provide an opportunity to gain a theoretical and practical appreciation of various health care systems;
- facilitate students' understanding of the strategic management of health care organisations;
- develop students' knowledge of the epidemiological issues of health care organisations;
- facilitate specialised understanding of existing health service models;
- apply best practice models for quality service design;
- extend students' knowledge, to critically review and communicate key information in relation to theoretical models and frameworks of quality evaluation;
- interpret workplace culture and its impact on quality service delivery;
- apply established theories to enhance factors that facilitate quality culture in the workplace;
- empower students to act to address barriers to the development of a quality culture in the workplace; and
- apply knowledge of monitoring and measuring performance within a quality framework.
Learning Outcomes
Career outcomes
Graduates may find employment in hospital administration, health administration or risk and quality assurance management.
Course structure
Compulsory Units
Globally, health systems are tasked with responding to contemporary challenges and the related disease burden and health needs of their population. This unit takes a systems approach to examine how health systems are designed, the key components, who pays, and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
This unit explores the principles, theories and practice of epidemiology. Students are provided with a comprehensive introduction to the collection and interpretation of epidemiological data within the framework of health, health care delivery and human services. The unit content covers…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
This unit aims to provide a broad understanding of governance, clinical governance, and risk management within the field of health and human services. The Unit will also illustrate some aspects of the practical implementation of governance and risk management as…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 1 |
Students completing this unit will have acquired knowledge about monitoring and measuring performance within a quality framework and apply knowledge of monitoring and measuring the quality of performance in complex simulated work environments.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for CNA419 Monitoring and Measuring Performance
Students completing this unit will have acquired knowledge about workplace culture and its impact on quality service delivery; to acquire knowledge about factors that facilitate or act as barriers to the development of a quality-culture in the workplace; apply this…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for CNA420 The Quality Culture and implementing quality improvements
This unit equips students to apply an advanced body of knowledge relating to quality service management to develop and implement 'quality' policy.…
Credit Points: 25
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Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for CNA421 Developing and implementing 'Quality' Policy
This unit equips students to apply an advanced body of knowledge relating to quality service management to design, implement and evaluate workplace change leading to a strengthened quality culture.…
Credit Points: 25
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Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for CNA422 Leading Quality in the Workplace
Students completing this unit will have acquired knowledge of existing health service models, the internal and external factors that influence the delivery of quality services, and the best-practice models for quality service design.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for CNA423 Introduction to Quality Health Services
During this unit students will acquire knowledge, critically review and communicate key information in relation to theoretical models and frameworks of quality evaluation.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 1 |
Choose from the following
Project Management for Health Professionals provides students with the foundational knowledge required to appreciate and implement practical approaches to project management in health sciences. Students will extend their skills in the utilisation of research evidence to refine and deepen their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for CNA613 Project Management for Health Professionals
Entry requirements
For Domestic students
Tertiary: FOR ELIGIBILITY TO BE ADMITTED TO THE COURSE: · AQF (or equivalent) undergraduate degree qualification and be working in a health care setting.Completed a Graduate Diploma or equivalent in the same specialisation · A statement outlining area of work, and evidence of confirmation of employment. (Payslip or signed and dated statement confirming current employment status). FOR ELIGIBLITY TO RECEIVE A HECS FEE SCHOLARSHIP Registered Nurses who are employed with, or members of, a partner organisation: Registered Nurses who work for one of our partner organisations can be offered H4F - Quality and Safety specialisation, to study the year one units under a HECS fee scholarship.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
This is a full-fee course, which means you’ll need to pay the entire amount for your studies. Commonwealth supported places are not available in this postgraduate course. However, there are still support options available for eligible students to help you manage the cost of studying this course.
You may be able to fund all or part of your tuition fees by accessing a FEE-HELP loan from the Australian Government. FEE-HELP is a loan scheme that assists domestic full-fee students to pay for University, which is repaid through the Australian Tax System once you earn above a repayment threshold. This means you’ll only have to start repaying the loan once you start earning above a specific amount.
Our scholarships and prizes program also offers more than 400 scholarships across all areas of study. You can even apply for multiple scholarships in one easy application.
An important note on Youth Allowance and AustudyThe Department of Social Services has approved some accredited and professionally oriented Masters courses for student payments through Youth Allowance or Austudy. This means if you enrol in one of these courses, you may be eligible for student payments. However, please be aware that this is not the case for all Master courses. Please visit our Scholarships, Fees and Costs website for further information.
Further informationDetailed fee information for domestic students is available at Scholarships, fees and costs, including additional information in relation to the compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
Domestic students enrolled in certain postgraduate coursework programs may not be eligible for student payments through Youth Allowance and Austudy. Visit the Department of Social Services website to find out more about eligibility for Centrelink support and the list of eligible courses
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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