Course Guide - Edith Cowan University

HST5231
20 Credit Points
Current Issues in Environmental Health
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
This unit aims to examine the diverse dimensions of environment
and human health interactions including scientific, technical,
social, economic, political and administrative perspectives. Case
studies of current environmental health issues will be used to
analyse the dynamic processes involved.
HST5311
20 Credit Points
Resource Management Skills
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Prerequisites :
HST5109 Fundamentals of Management and People Skills
HST5160 Planning and Performance Management Skills
This unit focuses on the skills required to manage human,
financial and capital resources in health and community care. It
outlines frameworks of industrial relations and issues of human
resource planning, recruitment, development and health and
safety. Budgeting issues and the management of capital in health
and community care settings are addressed.
HST5312
20 Credit Points
Managing and Using Information
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
A focus within this unit is the development of skills in
information management relevant to managers in health and
community care settings. A key element of the unit is a
consideration of the strategic importance of information as a
resource for management in health and community care settings.
Current issues and emerging trends in information technology and
information management are also addressed within the unit with
emphasis given to their impact on management roles in health and
community care. Quality issues related to information and
information systems are discussed and the key uses of information
are also outlined within the unit.
HST5501
20 Credit Points
Law and Ethical Issues
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The focus of unit content is legal concepts and their application to
the delivery of health and community care. Common law and
Statutes which are relevant to health and community care form
key elements of the unit as a means of illustrating issues. The
application of legal concepts to issues in the field of health and
community care management is emphasised. Current ethical
debates in health and community care are discussed with a view to
highlighting the dilemmas and challenges that continue to emerge
in these sectors.
HST5502
20 Credit Points
Current Issues
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
This unit examines key current health and community care
management and policy issues from historical, operational, and
strategic perspectives. The unit gives an overview of current
health and community care policy debates and challenges.
Students will be also be encouraged to consider the key health and
community care policy issues and debates within their own area of
work (e.g. aged care, rural health, primary health, mental health,
tertiary acute care etc) and to clarify the options and implications
of health and community care policy directions for their own
organisation and for themselves as health and community care
managers.
HST5503
20 Credit Points
Economics, Accounting and Finance
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The core elements of this unit are the economic and accounting
frameworks relevant to the management of health and community
care organisations. The unit also addresses the specific financial
management themes of cost analysis and behaviour, casemix,
budgeting, and variance analysis in health and community care
environments.
HST5504
20 Credit Points
Human Resource Management
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The content of this is centred on the key issues, tasks, roles and
challenges in human resource management in the health and
community care sectors. The unit incorporates a framework for
describing the contemporary health and community care
workforce and discusses workforce trends in these sectors. The
unit also uses a broad framework for characterising the elements
of human resource management practice. Systems and procedures
that enhance human resource management outcomes in health and
community care, and laws and contemporary standards that
pertain to employee-employer relationships within these sectors
are discussed.
HST5505
20 Credit Points
Information and Technology
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The unit provides an introduction to information management and
information and communication technology concepts with
particular emphasis on the health and community care
environments. Managers’ responsibilities for organisational
information management and ICT in the health and community
care sectors are identified and discussed and a range of
approaches to undertaking these roles is highlighted.
HST5506
20 Credit Points
Managing for Performance and Quality
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The content of this unit is focused on the health and community
care manager’s role in contributing to the performance of their
organisation. Frameworks for thinking about the performance of
health and community care systems are highlighted, contemporary
approaches to the management of quality in health and
community care are outlined, and the issues of risk and risk
management in the health and community care sectors are
described.
HST5507
20 Credit Points
International Health and Community Care Systems
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
This unit analyses the evolution, function, structure and funding
of a number of different health and community care systems. The
unit offers a framework for reviewing the legal, economic and
political context within which health and community care are
delivered. Different ways in which health and community care
systems can be organised and financed are explored and the
challenges different national health and community care systems
face in dealing with similar issues are discussed.
HST5508
20 Credit Points
Planning and Evaluation
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The content of this unit includes a brief history of planning,
examines planning in different resource environments, profiles
key planning skills, discusses different categories of planning, and
highlights implementation issues in health and community care. A
focus within the unit is the characterisation of process of planning,
beginning with an outline of the role planning plays through to the
use of plans by managers in health and community care settings.
Issues that impinge upon health and community care planning are
introduced, including policy and needs analysis. Evaluation is
discussed from a range of health and community care planning
perspectives.
HST5509
20 Credit Points
Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The unit focuses on the relationship between recent models of
leadership and emotional intelligence in the health context. The
unit outlines separately current thinking on mixed and ability
models of emotional intelligence, then outlines main concepts of
new paradigm leadership and then reviews the relationship
between these concepts. The learning methods adopted allow for
the progression of understanding of the literature, followed by self
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