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Postgraduate Course: Leadership across different health care contexts: achieving your potential (NUST11045)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Health in Social Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe course will focus on the introduction of change and leadership in a variety of health care settings. It will lead on to the successful implementation of a patient-focused, needs-led and practical innovation to achieve service improvement. The techniques and tools required and available will be examined for their effectiveness. Through a case study, the student will critically analyse and evaluate the working/placement environment.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate an extensive, detailed and critical knowledge and understanding of the main theoretical perspectives that inform developments at the forefront of current thinking on leadership within the healthcare setting.
  2. Apply a critical understanding of a range of key leadership theories, principles and concepts to your own context specific practice irrespective of whether or not you are currently in a formal leadership role.
  3. Demonstrate you are able to critically reflect on your own roles, knowledge acquisition, emotional intelligence, self-awareness and personal development in leadership to include skills such as team building, networking and conflict management.
  4. Demonstrate an awareness of and critical evaluation of recent research in areas related to leadership.
  5. Critically review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills and practices and thinking in leadership thus enabling you to deal with complex issues and make informed judgements relating to leadership and teamwork.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMs Maggie Carson
Tel: (0131 6)51 3928
Email: m.n.carson@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Sergio Mori Sierra
Tel: (0131 6)50 4661
Email: sergio.mori@ed.ac.uk
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