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Department: Nursing & Health Care Sciences Module Code: MGMT91001
Level: Level 9 Contact Hours: 36
Duration: 1 Semester Directed Study Hours: 0
Effective Term: 2015/16 Indep. Study Hours: 164
Credits: 10

Prerequisite Knowledge:

  None

Module Description/Aims:

 
This module is suitable for health and social care professionals seeking to develop their personal effectiveness and leadership capacity in the context of current structural and professional change in the Irish Health Services. It will promote critical reflection on leadership, change and partnership. The module is designed to integrate the Health Services Executive personal competency assessment tool and the development of a personal development plan to enhance personal effectiveness and leadership capability.

 


 
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Contact Type Hours
Lecture30 Per Module
Tutorial6 Per Module


 
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On successful completion of the module, the learner will be able to:
No. Description/Learning Outcomes
1Develop and apply a systematic critical understanding, knowledge and skills in interprofessional leadership to organisational change /policy initiatives to promote service quality and safety
2 Evaluate and apply complex theories and concepts of leadership and change that underpin interprofessional practice and generate new skills and work practices through critical reflection.
3Systematically gather, interpret, synthesise and evaluate information /evidence from a diverse range of sources ,including the perspective of stakeholders in relation to organisational change/policy and apply this information/evidence to promote service quality and safety
4Identify challenges to service improvement/safety and generate strategies to address these challenges in the context of interprofessional leadership of organisational change or implementation of policy
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Learning Strategies show detail >>
   
 
Learning Strategies
Keynote Lectures
Class debate
Tutorials


 
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Content Detail
Leadership Theory/Leadership PracticeThis section will focus on current research in relation to interprofessional leadership from both health and social care and the wider world of business
It will explore the implications/application of theory to advancing practice to promote service safety and quality
Change theory and practiceThis section will examine the dynamics of advancing practice based on change theory/research with special emphasis on interprofessional working to promote service quality and safety
Interprofessional PracticeThis section will focus on strategies for collaborative /partnership working based on international experience to promote service quality and safety


 
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Assessment Strategies
Students will discuss the challenges to service improvement and safety in the context of a scenario of interprofessional leadership or organisational change (1500 words).
Select one aspect of the scenario and in the context of the module learning outcomes discuss in detail its effect upon service improvement and safety (3000 words)
Repeat assessment strategy: This will entail the submission of a revised assignment(s) that demonstrate the satisfactory achievement of the module learning outcomes


 
Indicative Assessments show detail >>
   
Learning Outcome Assessment Category Assessment Method Additional Information % alloc
1, 2, 3, 4Continuous AssessmentProblem-based Case Scenario30
1, 2, 3, 4, 5Final Exam (Other)Assignment - Out of Class70


 
Reading List show detail >>
   
 
Type ISBN Title Author Publisher Year Edition Library Link
Essential9780199214884Organisational Change: Themes and Issues
Grieves, Jim
Oxford University Press		20101st-
Essential9780199580873Leadership and Management Development
Carmichael, Collins , Emsell and Haydon
Oxford University Press		20111st-
Essential1847424864Leadership and management for healthcare
Hartley, J. and Benington, J.
Policy Press Bristol		20101st-
Recommended9781842181614Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland A Strategy for professional Development in a Changing Health Servic
O'Shea, Yvonne
Blackhall Publishing		20081st-
Recommended9781412929Leadership & Management in Social Care
Hafford
Sage		20081st-
Recommended9781567933550Leadership in healthcare:essential values and skills
Dye, Carson
Health Administration Press		20101st-


 
Journals and Websites show detail >>
   
 
Type Description
Websitewww.hseland.ie
Websiteipe.utoronto.ca/docs/IMPLC_SUPER_TOOLKIT.pdf http://www.bing.com/search?q=website+leadership+interprofessional&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IE8SRC http://libguides.ohsu.edu/IPE
JournalHarvard Business Review
JournalJournal of Nursing Management
JournalInternational Journal of Clinical Leadership
Websitehttp://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/developing-collective leadership-health-care
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