HME712 - Healthcare Operations
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
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| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Online Trimester 2: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Sandeep Reddy Trimester 2: Sandeep Reddy |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | HMC701-OD and HMC702-OD |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | 5 x Seminars by Zoom per week over the 11 week trimester plus engagement in online discussion boards on FutureLearn. |
Content
This unit explores healthcare operations and presents strategies, concepts and methods that can improve the delivery of healthcare by increasing efficiency and effectiveness. By providing a toolkit for better understanding and managing queueing, scheduling, capacity planning and process design, this unit equips graduates to seek out, analyse and solve the myriad causes of delays. By using real world examples that situate healthcare within a broader health sector and budget context, the unit equips students with the capacity to apply theory, methods and tools to healthcare in Australia and internationally.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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| ULO1 | Apply theories of capacity planning, scheduling, queueing and process design to delays in healthcare. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Critically analyse the causes of operational delays in healthcare contexts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Use appropriate frameworks and tools to explore delays in real world inpatient and outpatient healthcare within the broader health system contexts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Evaluate and present solutions to improve patient experience by adopting an appropriate system-wide perspective. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Students need to note in addition to contribution to assessments students are required to contribute to online discussion threads regularly as this contribution will be considered in your final grading.
Assessment
Trimester 1 & Trimester 2:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Case Study Analysis | 1000 words | 25% |
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| Assessment 2: Numerical Exercise | Calculation + 200 words | 10% |
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| Assessment 3: Action Plan | 800 words | 20% |
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| Assessment 4: Summative Report | 2000 words | 45% |
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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.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HME712 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.
Unit Fee Information
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