HSM405 Developing Systems for Safety in Health and Aged Services (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Allied Health (ALHEA)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
Students examine ethical and regulatory influences on managerial decision making in health services. A focus on safety and the prevention of adverse events in health and aged care services is explored from individual, organisational and system perspectives, with close reference to the theories of responsive regulation and organisational learning.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
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| Distance | Bathurst |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: HSM405
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Available only to postgraduate students in health and aged services related courses
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to define ethics and discuss the ethical dimensions of the health service manager's role;
- be able to identify and critically analyse an ethical dilema from practice and evaluate the effectiveness of models of ethical decision making informing this process;
- be able to identify principle events that have influenced the development of health services regulation and explain the current concern with patient safety as a focus for regulatory reform;
- be able to discuss health service regulation and its relationship to patient safety, reflecting an awareness of contemporary theories including responsive regulation;
- be able to critically analyse, with reference to regulatory theory, safety issues in contemporary health care from individual, organisational and system perspectives.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Defining ethics/ Ethical theories and concepts
- Principle based ethics
- Ethical decision making in health services management
- Historical aspects
- Adverse events
- The nature of regulation
- The individual: Professionalism
- The organisation: Accreditation/ clinical governance
- The system: Legislation
- Overview of regulatory obligations of health services managers
- Current issues in health service regulation
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.