Overview 2020
Location
This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students
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By studying this course you’ll gain the skills necessary to implement initiatives for better patient care in your own workplace through developing and delivering your own quality and safety improvement project, focussing on patient-centred care and utilising a variety of models and frameworks to achieve best practice.
Course objectives
The School of Medicine aims to create an educational environment which values critical, reflective thinking, life-long learning, acquisition of generic attributes and professional development.
The units provide students with specialised knowledge and tools to understand the importance of and participate in quality and safety in healthcare. The Graduate Certificate in Quality Services (Health and Safety) course objectives are:
- to provide students with an opportunity to gain knowledge of the internal and external factors that influence the delivery of quality services;
- to allow students to develop knowledge of existing health service models;
- to explore best practice models for quality service design;
- to develop students' knowledge, to critically review and communicate key information in relation totheoretical models and frameworks of quality evaluation;
- to explore workplace culture and its impact on quality service delivery;
- to enable students to acquire knowledge about factors that facilitate or act as barriers to the development of a quality culture in the workplace;
- to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge about monitoring and measuring performance within a quality framework; and
- to apply knowledge of monitoring and measuring the quality of performance in complex simulated work contexts.
Career outcomes
Graduates may find employment in hospital administration, health administration or risk and quality assurance management.
Course structure
Entry requirements
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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