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2025 unit information
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Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 5 x 1 hour online seminars (recordings provided)
Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
This unit has as its focus a critical examination of patient safety and risk management in health care contexts, locally and globally. Particular attention is given to human error theory and clinical governance as overarching guiding factors for progressing patient safety and taking a systems approach to reducing the incidence and impact of preventable adverse events in health care domains. Students will critically examine the organisational contexts in which adverse events occur, the role of clinical governance in facilitating a systematic approach to reducing the incidence. Considerations are also given to the impact of preventable adverse events in clinical practice, principles and processes of human error management, system and human factor enablers and barriers to achieving safe health care, patient safety competencies (individual and institutional), accountability and responsibility for patient safety and risk management in health care.
Week 1: Introduction to Patient Safety and Management Week 2: Human Error Theory and Human Factors Week 3: Organisational Contexts and Systems Week 4: Clinical GovernanceWeek 5: Human Error Management Week 6: Using QI Methods to Improve Safety (Part 1) Week 7: Using QI Methods to Improve Safety (Part 2) Week 8: Engaging with Patients and Carers Week 9: Patient Safety in Primary Care and in the Home
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
ULO1
Integrate the theory and practice of patient safety, risk management and clinical governance in healthcare settings to improve patient outcomes.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinking
ULO2
Examine and articulate the roles and responsibilities of health service providers including health service managers, clinical leaders and practitioners, in ensuring patient safety and managing risk in health care settings.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO6: Self-managementGLO8: Global citizenship
ULO3
Critically discuss the theoretical underpinnings of patient safety and risk management and their implications for policy and practice in health care.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO3: Digital literacyGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO6: Self-management
ULO4
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solving
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for HNN749 can be found via the University Library. Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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