DESCRIPTION:
This module aims to introduce you to unit
management. Registered nurses who work in clinics or hospitals are confronted
from the beginning of their working lives with the demands of management tasks
to ensure the smooth functioning of the unit in which they work. Although these
functions might take a back seat to master the clinical care delivery tasks at
the beginning, they very soon become an increasing part of the job.
OVERALL LEARNING OUTCOMES
§ Demonstrate the ability to interrogate multiple
sources of knowledge in Unit Management and Leadership and to evaluate
knowledge and processes of knowledge production related to Unit Management and
Leadership
§ Demonstrate an understanding of the complexities
and uncertainties of selecting, applying, or transferring appropriate standard
Unit Management and Leadership procedures, processes, or techniques to
unfamiliar problems in Unit Management and Leadership
§ Demonstrate the ability to use a range of
specialized skills to identify, analyze and address complex or abstract Unit
Management and Leadership problems drawing systematically on the body of
knowledge and methods appropriate to Unit Management and Leadership
§ Demonstrate the ability to identify and address
ethical issues using critical reflection based on the suitability of different
ethical value systems to the Unit Management and Leadership context
§ Management context to develop creative responses to
problems and issues
§ Demonstrate the ability to present and communicate Unit
Management and Leadership academic, professional/occupational ideas and reports
effectively to a range of audiences, offering insights, rigorous
interpretations, and solutions to problems and issues appropriate to the Unit
Management and Leadership context
§ Demonstrate the ability to manage a nursing unit
based on an understanding of the roles and relationships between elements
within the Health Care System
§ Apply, in a self-critical manner, learning
strategies that effectively address your own professional, and ongoing learning
needs, including the professional and ongoing learning needs of others
§ Demonstrate the ability to take full responsibility
for own work, decision making, and use of resources, as well as full
accountability for the decisions and actions of others within a nursing unit.
§ Demonstrate the ability to critically review
information gathering, synthesis of data, evaluation, and management processes
in a Nursing
