Leadership, Quality Improvement and Governance for Advanced Clinical Practice

Program Overview

This module explores the dynamics of healthcare organizations, focusing on leadership, quality improvement, governance, and collaborative practices. It aims to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to contribute to the delivery of patient-centered care and the development of healthcare policies and services. The module covers topics such as health policy analysis, advanced practice role development, evidence-based practice, and organizational change management. Students are assessed through written assignments and presentations.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This module explores organisational dynamics in relation to leadership, quality improvement, governance and collaborative practice. The aim of this module is to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to advanced practice roles so as students may make an effective contribution to the attainment of excellence in person centred care, and to the development of both health and social care policy and health service delivery.

• Analysis of health policies, structures and governance systems, and their implications for practice
• Overview of the policy process
• Strategies for planning service provision, implementing changes in practice, quality improvement
• The role of evidence-based practice, accreditation, regulation in quality improvement and patient safety
• Clinical and professional development issues; leadership and management frameworks, which focus on the development of the Advanced Practice role nationally and internationally
• Collaboration, communication, working in groups and team building in health care, and issues influencing the reality of working in an advanced practice role

The module introduces and further develops the knowledge, skills and attitudes of healthcare professionals in the context of clinical governance with specific emphases on:

• Leadership theory and skills
• Inter-organisational partnership principles and frameworks
• The concepts of participation and principles of collaboration

Students explore:

• Motivational models
• Performance appraisal systems
• Approaches to managing conflict

Course Schedule:

| Date (week commencing) | Unit | Content | |---|---|---| | 17/02/2025 | Unit 1 | Theoretical approaches to leadership and management, clinical leadership, team leadership, interprofessional collaboration and communication | | 24/02/2025 | Unit 1 | | | 03/03/2025 | Unit 2 | Clinical governance and change in advanced practice, healthcare regulation, risk management, managing and leading change in healthcare | | 10/03/2025 | Unit 3 | Leadership, quality improvement and governance: healthcare policy, international healthcare policy, national healthcare policy and the ANP/AMP, policy process in Ireland | | 17/03/2025 | Unit 4 | Professional and self-development of the ANP/AMP and others in healthcare |

Assessment:

• Total Marks 200
• Continuous Assessment 200 marks (Written assignment, 150 marks and Presentation, 50 marks).
• Compulsory Elements: Continuous Assessment.

Teaching:

Other:

• Penalties (for late submission of Course/Project Work etc.
): Where work is submitted up to and including 7 days late, 10% of the total marks available shall be deducted from the mark achieved. Where work is submitted up to and including 14 days late, 20% of the total marks available shall be deducted from the mark achieved. Work submitted 15 days late or more shall be assigned a mark of zero.

€1,100