Postgraduate - Edith Cowan University
Postgraduate - Edith Cowan University
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HST5176 20 Credit Points<br />
Occupational Hygiene Sampling and Study Design<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
Modern workplaces are often very complex with a variety of<br />
exposures to chemical, physical and biological agents. In<br />
developing best practice occupational monitoring protocols it is<br />
thus important that sampling will be conducted in an unbiased and<br />
scientifically rigorous way. This unit covers advanced aspects of<br />
occupational hygiene sampling strategies and statistical aspects<br />
associated with environmental sampling and study design.<br />
HST5177 20 Credit Points<br />
Independent Study<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
This unit is designed to facilitate independent study, that extends<br />
students' knowledge in a chosen field or that complements workbased<br />
learning opportunities. The direction and dimensions of the<br />
study will be tailored to individual student needs at the discretion<br />
of the unit coordinator.<br />
HST5178 20 Credit Points<br />
Occupational Toxicology<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
Prerequisite :<br />
HST5144 Occupational Hygiene 1<br />
This unit will explore advanced concepts<br />
of Occupational Toxicology including the assessment of health<br />
risks associated with exposures.<br />
HST5231 20 Credit Points<br />
Current Issues in Environmental Health<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
This unit aims to examine the diverse dimensions of environment<br />
and human health interactions including scientific, technical,<br />
social, economic, political and administrative perspectives. Case<br />
studies of current environmental health issues will be used to<br />
analyse the dynamic processes involved.<br />
HST5311 20 Credit Points<br />
Resource Management Skills<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
Prerequisites :<br />
HST5109 Fundamentals of Management and People Skills<br />
HST5160 Planning and Performance Management Skills<br />
This unit focuses on the skills required to manage human,<br />
financial and capital resources in health and community care. It<br />
outlines frameworks of industrial relations and issues of human<br />
resource planning, recruitment, development and health and<br />
safety. Budgeting issues and the management of capital in health<br />
and community care settings are addressed.<br />
HST5312 20 Credit Points<br />
Managing and Using Information<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
A focus within this unit is the development of skills in<br />
information management relevant to managers in health and<br />
community care settings. A key element of the unit is a<br />
consideration of the strategic importance of information as a<br />
resource for management in health and community care settings.<br />
Current issues and emerging trends in information technology and<br />
information management are also addressed within the unit with<br />
emphasis given to their impact on management roles in health and<br />
community care. Quality issues related to information and<br />
information systems are discussed and the key uses of information<br />
are also outlined within the unit.<br />
HST5501 20 Credit Points<br />
Law and Ethical Issues<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
The focus of unit content is legal concepts and their application to<br />
the delivery of health and community care. Common law and<br />
Statutes which are relevant to health and community care form<br />
key elements of the unit as a means of illustrating issues. The<br />
application of legal concepts to issues in the field of health and<br />
community care management is emphasised. Current ethical<br />
debates in health and community care are discussed with a view to<br />
highlighting the dilemmas and challenges that continue to emerge<br />
in these sectors.<br />
HST5502 20 Credit Points<br />
Current Issues<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
This unit examines key current health and community care<br />
management and policy issues from historical, operational, and<br />
strategic perspectives. The unit gives an overview of current<br />
health and community care policy debates and challenges.<br />
Students will be also be encouraged to consider the key health and<br />
community care policy issues and debates within their own area of<br />
work (e.g. aged care, rural health, primary health, mental health,<br />
tertiary acute care etc) and to clarify the options and implications<br />
of health and community care policy directions for their own<br />
organisation and for themselves as health and community care<br />
managers.<br />
HST5503 20 Credit Points<br />
Economics, Accounting and Finance<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
The core elements of this unit are the economic and accounting<br />
frameworks relevant to the management of health and community<br />
care organisations. The unit also addresses the specific financial<br />
management themes of cost analysis and behaviour, casemix,<br />
budgeting, and variance analysis in health and community care<br />
environments.<br />
HST5504 20 Credit Points<br />
Human Resource Management<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
The content of this is centred on the key issues, tasks, roles and<br />
challenges in human resource management in the health and<br />
community care sectors. The unit incorporates a framework for<br />
describing the contemporary health and community care<br />
workforce and discusses workforce trends in these sectors. The<br />
unit also uses a broad framework for characterising the elements<br />
of human resource management practice. Systems and procedures<br />
that enhance human resource management outcomes in health and<br />
community care, and laws and contemporary standards that<br />
pertain to employee-employer relationships within these sectors<br />
are discussed.<br />
HST5505 20 Credit Points<br />
Information and Technology<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
The unit provides an introduction to information management and<br />
information and communication technology concepts with<br />
particular emphasis on the health and community care<br />
environments. Managers’ responsibilities for organisational<br />
information management and ICT in the health and community<br />
care sectors are identified and discussed and a range of<br />
approaches to undertaking these roles is highlighted.<br />
HST5506 20 Credit Points<br />
Managing for Performance and Quality<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
The content of this unit is focused on the health and community<br />
care manager’s role in contributing to the performance of their<br />
organisation. Frameworks for thinking about the performance of<br />
health and community care systems are highlighted, contemporary<br />
approaches to the management of quality in health and<br />
community care are outlined, and the issues of risk and risk<br />
management in the health and community care sectors are<br />
described.<br />
HST5507 20 Credit Points<br />
International Health and Community Care Systems<br />
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE<br />
This unit analyses the evolution, function, structure and funding<br />
of a number of different health and community care systems. The<br />
unit offers a framework for reviewing the legal, economic and<br />
political context within which health and community care are<br />
delivered. Different ways in which health and community care<br />
246 ECU <strong>Postgraduate</strong> Course Guide 2008