Overview 2021
This course may not be available to international students. Please see the International Online Course Guide (PDF 809KB) for courses that are offered to international students
This course is not currently accepting applications.
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
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
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launceston | Semester 1 | ||||
| Launceston | Semester 2 | ||||
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
This unit is currently unavailable.
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
This unit is currently unavailable.
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
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CNA420 The Quality Culture and implementing quality improvements
Entry requirements
Eligibility
Entry Requirements
To be eligible for an offer, applicants must have:
- A bachelor degree or higher, and be working in a health care setting (this includes but is not limited to a hospital, a GP clinic, aged care setting, primary health care, department of community services).
International Applicants
This course is not available to international students. Please enquire online for advice on alternative course options.
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