HLQ639 Leadership in Gerontology
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| Unit code: | HLQ639 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
Unit Outline: Session 2 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | HLQ639 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 96CP |
Overview
- In the challenging environment of the contemporary health system, health professionals caring for the older person will be required to provide organisational leadership to ensure that services continue to evolve to meet the changing community needs and the changing service delivery challenges. Such leadership requires the acquisition of knowledge and the development of capabilities in leadership to address current and future challenges, and build strong, respectful and meaningful relationships with the older person, their families and multidisciplinary health care teams. As the capstone unit in the Master of Gerontology, this unit further develops your skills in addressing complex contemporary issues in health care and gerontology and challenges you to critically evaluate your leadership capabilities and philosophy to prepare you to lead and advocate for improved care of the older person.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically examine health leadership theories and apply to the context of Gerontology across diverse care settings.
- Critically reflect on your personal leadership philosophy and capabilities, and identify areas of self-improvement to meet the diverse, complex and interdisciplinary needs of the older person.
- Demonstrate the capacity to initiate and lead intra- and inter-disciplinary collaborations to advocate for practice change in the delivery of optimal outcomes across care settings for the older person and build productive relationships across diverse stakeholders.
Content
Course themes emphasised in this unit include advocacy and leadership, intra- and inter- disciplinary practice, ethical and responsible practice, therapeutic relationships and communication.
The unit is organised into 8 modules:
Module 1: Introduction to Leadership and Management in the health and aged care context
- Contemporary leadership context
- Definitions and theories of leadership
- Difference between leadership and management
Module 2: Understanding leadership in Gerontology
- Leadership in health and aged care
- Leadership capability, knowledge and skills
- Power and influence
- Professional credibility
- Evaluating your leadership capabilities
Module 3: Governance in health and aged care
- Corporate and clinical governance and risk management
- Governance in action
- Governance and aged care reform
- Understanding the scope of your role and responsibilities
Module 4: Ensuring quality and safety in health and aged care
- Introduction to quality and safety in health and aged care
- Quality improvement methods and tools
- Consumer engagement
- Barriers to quality improvement
Module 5: Health service and aged care policy
- Why do we need policy
- The policy development and evaluation process
- Community and consumer engagement and participation
- Leadership role in policy implementation
Module 6: Aged care service planning and performance management
- Service planning
- Strategic management - strategic, business and project plans
- Performance management
Module 7: Reform - innovation, redesign, culture and consumer engagement
- Aged care reform and innovation
- Process redesign
- Understanding the impact of culture
- Building productive relationships with diverse stakeholders
Module 8: Leading reform and managing the media
- Leadership and aged care reform - how is this different to the topic in the previous module?
- Large scale change
- Engaging staff
- Managing conflict
- Media management
Learning Approaches
In this fully online unit you will have the opportunity to learn through active engagement with the interactive learning resources, peer learning, moderated and facilitated online discussions, learning events and self-directed learning materials. This unit takes an interdisciplinary approach and encourages students to apply their learning to their speciality. Authentic learning activities assist students to consider the role that strong leadership plays in aged care through active online engagement with interdisciplinary, industry informed resources.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
- Informal formative feedback will be provided through self-check exercises, peer feedback and through individual or whole of class feedback in online discussions or via comments in online communities.
- Formal written or recorded feedback will be received on both formative and summative assessment tasks via Turnitin or the Canvas Assignment tool, in addition to the grade on the Criterion Reference Assessment sheet.
- Feedback on your assessment task 1 will be received prior to the submission of your assessment task 2.
- Students are encouraged to seek and share feedback in their workplaces where appropriate
Assessment
Overview
In this unit, there are two summative assessment tasks to submit. The first assessment task requires you to reflect on leadership theories to identify leadership approaches that promote safe and quality care of the older person in diverse care settings. This task is due in week 6. The second assessment involves a scenario where you have been shortlisted for a leadership role in an aged care service. You will complete a plan for your job application, respond to key selection criteria and respond to an interview question for the role. This task is due at the end of the teaching period in the QUT Online exam week.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Effective Leadership in Gerontology
In this assignment, you will perform research to investigate how good leadership in aged care affects organisational culture and performance. Using evidence from this research, you will write an essay that responds to a series of questions.
1. What are the attributes of management and leadership that best fit aged care services?
In your answer you should consider the effective management and leadership required for sound governance, strategic decision-making, staff engagement, a learning culture, respecting diversity, developing strong stakeholder relationships, organisational performance and good reputation.
2. What are the personal, organisational and systems barriers that leaders face in leading effectively in the aged care sector?
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Job application
In this assignment scenario you have been shortlisted for a leadership role for an aged care service. You will select one job from a list of simulated job advertisements and complete a plan for your job application, respond to key selection criteria and respond to an interview question for the role. You will need to identify the key knowledge, skills, experience and leadership capabilities that the recruitment panel will be looking for in both written applications and in an interview. You will need to understand why these key capabilities are considered important to the role.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Computer and access to internet
Costs
Nil
Resources
The set eText for this unit is:
Barr, J. & Dowding, L. (2016). Leadership in Health Care (3rd ed.). London: Sage Publications Ltd.
You will be provided with links to all required readings through your online modules and via the QUT Library.
Risk Assessment Statement
Substantial computer-based work will be required. You are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work.
Unit Outline: Session 4 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | HLQ639 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 96CP |
Overview
- In the challenging environment of the contemporary health system, health professionals caring for the older person will be required to provide organisational leadership to ensure that services continue to evolve to meet the changing community needs and the changing service delivery challenges. Such leadership requires the acquisition of knowledge and the development of capabilities in leadership to address current and future challenges, and build strong, respectful and meaningful relationships with the older person, their families and multidisciplinary health care teams. As the capstone unit in the Master of Gerontology, this unit further develops your skills in addressing complex contemporary issues in health care and gerontology and challenges you to critically evaluate your leadership capabilities and philosophy to prepare you to lead and advocate for improved care of the older person.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically examine health leadership theories and apply to the context of Gerontology across diverse care settings.
- Critically reflect on your personal leadership philosophy and capabilities, and identify areas of self-improvement to meet the diverse, complex and interdisciplinary needs of the older person.
- Demonstrate the capacity to initiate and lead intra- and inter-disciplinary collaborations to advocate for practice change in the delivery of optimal outcomes across care settings for the older person and build productive relationships across diverse stakeholders.
Content
Course themes emphasised in this unit include advocacy and leadership, intra- and inter- disciplinary practice, ethical and responsible practice, therapeutic relationships and communication.
The unit is organised into 8 modules:
Module 1: Introduction to Leadership and Management in the health and aged care context
- Contemporary leadership context
- Definitions and theories of leadership
- Difference between leadership and management
Module 2: Understanding leadership in Gerontology
- Leadership in health and aged care
- Leadership capability, knowledge and skills
- Power and influence
- Professional credibility
- Evaluating your leadership capabilities
Module 3: Governance in health and aged care
- Corporate and clinical governance and risk management
- Governance in action
- Governance and aged care reform
- Understanding the scope of your role and responsibilities
Module 4: Ensuring quality and safety in health and aged care
- Introduction to quality and safety in health and aged care
- Quality improvement methods and tools
- Consumer engagement
- Barriers to quality improvement
Module 5: Health service and aged care policy
- Why do we need policy
- The policy development and evaluation process
- Community and consumer engagement and participation
- Leadership role in policy implementation
Module 6: Aged care service planning and performance management
- Service planning
- Strategic management - strategic, business and project plans
- Performance management
Module 7: Reform - innovation, redesign, culture and consumer engagement
- Aged care reform and innovation
- Process redesign
- Understanding the impact of culture
- Building productive relationships with diverse stakeholders
Module 8: Leading reform and managing the media
- Leadership and aged care reform - how is this different to the topic in the previous module?
- Large scale change
- Engaging staff
- Managing conflict
- Media management
Learning Approaches
In this fully online unit you will have the opportunity to learn through active engagement with the interactive learning resources, peer learning, moderated and facilitated online discussions, learning events and self-directed learning materials. This unit takes an interdisciplinary approach and encourages students to apply their learning to their speciality. Authentic learning activities assist students to consider the role that strong leadership plays in aged care through active online engagement with interdisciplinary, industry informed resources.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
- Informal formative feedback will be provided through self-check exercises, peer feedback and through individual or whole of class feedback in online discussions or via comments in online communities.
- Formal written or recorded feedback will be received on both formative and summative assessment tasks via Turnitin or the Canvas Assignment tool, in addition to the grade on the Criterion Reference Assessment sheet.
- Feedback on your assessment task 1 will be received prior to the submission of your assessment task 2.
- Students are encouraged to seek and share feedback in their workplaces where appropriate
Assessment
Overview
In this unit, there are two summative assessment tasks to submit. The first assessment task requires you to reflect on leadership theories to identify leadership approaches that promote safe and quality care of the older person in diverse care settings. This task is due in week 6. The second assessment involves a scenario where you have been shortlisted for a leadership role in an aged care service. You will complete a plan for your job application, respond to key selection criteria and respond to an interview question for the role. This task is due at the end of the teaching period in the QUT Online exam week.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Effective Leadership in Gerontology
In this assignment, you will perform research to investigate how good leadership in aged care affects organisational culture and performance. Using evidence from this research, you will write an essay that responds to a series of questions.
1. What are the attributes of management and leadership that best fit aged care services?
In your answer you should consider the effective management and leadership required for sound governance, strategic decision-making, staff engagement, a learning culture, respecting diversity, developing strong stakeholder relationships, organisational performance and good reputation.
2. What are the personal, organisational and systems barriers that leaders face in leading effectively in the aged care sector?
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Job application
In this assignment scenario you have been shortlisted for a leadership role for an aged care service. You will select one job from a list of simulated job advertisements and complete a plan for your job application, respond to key selection criteria and respond to an interview question for the role. You will need to identify the key knowledge, skills, experience and leadership capabilities that the recruitment panel will be looking for in both written applications and in an interview. You will need to understand why these key capabilities are considered important to the role.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Computer and access to internet
Costs
Nil
Resources
The set eText for this unit is:
Barr, J. & Dowding, L. (2016). Leadership in Health Care (3rd ed.). London: Sage Publications Ltd.
You will be provided with links to all required readings through your online modules and via the QUT Library.
Risk Assessment Statement
Substantial computer-based work will be required. You are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work.