HNN749 - Patient Safety and Risk Management
Unit details
| Year: | 2023 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Stephane Bouchoucha |
| Cohort rule: | Must be enrolled in one of the following courses: H575, H568, H569, H645, H665, H666, H667, H668, H669, H672, H675, H771, H777, M701, M703. |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | HNN718 |
| 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 - online: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 3 x 1 hour online seminars (recordings provided) |
Content
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 an overarching guiding framework 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 be given the opportunity to make a critical examination of the organisational contexts in which adverse events occur, the role of clinical governance in facilitating a systematic approach to reducing the incidence and 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 domains, and the application of patient safety concepts and processes in primary health care.
| 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 | Integrate knowledge and understanding of the theory and practice of patient safety, risk management and clinical governance in hospital settings. | GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO2 | Debate the notions of health service provider (e.g., health service managers, clinical leaders, practitioners) responsibility and accountability for patient safety and risk management in health care contexts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Improve their use of technologies to find, use and disseminate information on patient safety and risk management in hospital contexts. | GLO3: Digital literacy |
| ULO4 | Critically discuss the theoretical underpinnings of patient safety and risk management and their implications for policy and practice in health care domains. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Propose solutions to patient safety and risk management issues encountered in everyday health care practice. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO6 | Justify the importance of working and learning independently, and taking personal responsibility for achieving the patient safety competencies necessary to assure effective patient safety and risk management in health care domains. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
Trimester 1:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Assignment | 2000 words | 40% |
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| Assessment 2: Assignment | 3000 words | 60% |
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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: HNN749 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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