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NUR3201 Quality, Safety and Risk

Short Description: Quality, Safety and Risk
Units : 1
Faculty or Section : Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences
School or Department : School of Nursing and Midwifery
Student contribution band : National Priority - Nursing
ASCED code : 060301 - General Nursing
Grading basis : Graded
Version produced : 23 September 2019

Requisites

Pre-requisite: NUR2000 and NUR2300 and NUR2204 and NUR2299

Synopsis

Students will explore safety and quality principles and standards with particular focus on integrated risk management, corporate and clinical governance, root cause analysis, and evidence based applications as they relate to positive patient care outcomes. In addition, students will learn and apply legislative and professional standards as they relate to inter-professional practice. Students will develop skills in a simulated laboratory setting to apply principles of quality, safety and risk in practice.

This course contains a mandatory residential school.

Course offers

Semester Mode Campus
Semester 1, 2019 External
Semester 2, 2019 External