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Overview  2020

Entry Requirements

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Duration

Minimum

Duration

Duration refers to the minimum and maximum amounts of time in which this course can be completed. It will be affected by whether you choose to study full or part time, noting that some programs are only available part time.

Location

Distance Launceston
Semester 1, Semester 2

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

This course is offered for professionals working as middle and senior managers in the health care sector who wish to expand their knowledge and skills in the management of patient safety and service quality within health care organisations. It is appropriate for hospital administrators, risk and quality assurance managers, senior medical, nursing and allied health administrators.

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.

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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International
+61 3 6226 6200
Email
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