Leading Change for Patient and Service Improvement - Single module
Level 7 (30 credits)
School - School of Health and Society
Subject area - Nursing
Start Dates(s): September
Duration:
One Semester, intake September and February
Fees:
Part-time - £1,260 per 30 credit module
In Brief:
- Plan for real and sustained change to bring about patient and service improvement within your health care organisation
- Learn how to inspire and create an environment for people to make change
- Appraise their qualities as a leader and their impact in practice
- A part-time only course
- NHS funding available
Course Summary
You can take this course as a single module for continuing professional development or as part of the MSc Leadership and Management for Health Care Practice
This module will explore:
- Models of change and models for service improvement, i.e. Lean, PDSA Cycle
- Clinical governance
- Team development/motivation
- Stakeholder involvement and relationships
- Models of empowerment and decision-making
- Training needs analysis
- Workforce development and re-configuration
- Comparison and exploration of the students perspectives of leading change through discussion and reflective groups (comparison UK and international student perspectives)
- Business ethics/professional boundaries
- Justify public trust
- Models of evaluation and effectiveness drawing on UK and international evidence-base