Overview 2020
Location
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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
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
Schedule
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Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for CNA423 Introduction to Quality Health Services
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View all details for CNA419 Monitoring and Measuring Performance
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Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for CNA420 The Quality Culture and implementing quality improvements
Entry requirements
Eligibility
Domestic applicants must have an Australian bachelor degree in a relevant health discipline with at least two years work experience in the healthcare sector or be selected and sponsored through another agency, with evidence of equivalent qualifications and/or experience.
English Language
A minimum standard of English language proficiency must be met for entry into postgraduate programs in the University of Tasmania and can be demonstrated in any one of a variety of ways. Applicants for Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Masters by coursework degrees have the following English language requirements.
1. IELTS (Academic) - 6.0 (no individual band less than 6.0)
2. TOEFL (PBT) 575 TWE 4.5; TOEFL (iBT) 88 (no score below 20)
3. PTE Academic 50 with no score lower than 50
4. UTAS DEAP Overall 60% (Writing 60%)
5. Cambridge CAE (Certificate of Advanced English) - B Grade
6. Cambridge CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) - C Grade
7. Cambridge BEC (Business English Certificate) Higher - C Grade
Student Support
Domestic student support including email availability of staff, online IT and student services and the Flexible Library Service available to students outside Tasmania is available through the usual systems. Some of this, such as discussion forums, will be built into MyLO.
Articulation from
The course has articulation with the Graduate Diploma and Masters.
Articulation to
On completion of this course candidates may apply for credit into programs such as the MBA(Health Services).
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in. Full fee paying domestic students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Detailed tuition fee information for domestic students is available at the Domestic Student Fees website, including additional information in relation to a compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
International students
International students should refer to the International Students course fees page to get an indicative course cost.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
How can we help?
Do you have any questions about choosing a course or applying? Get in touch.
- Domestic
- 1300 363 864
- International
- +61 3 6226 6200
- Course.Info@utas.edu.au
- Online
- Online enquiries