Postgraduate Course: Leading and Managing in Health and Social Care (NUST11101)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This SCQF level 11 course sits within year 2 of the Masters of Nursing with Pre-registration (Adult) and draws on theory and practice developed across the programme. This course provides students with the opportunity to engage with knowledge to support the development of their understanding of leading and managing nursing care within the context of health and social care. The focus is two-fold both on critically evaluating the role of effective leadership within organisations as a means of ensuring safe and effective patient care; and developing a critical awareness of self and the skills and attributes necessary for effective leadership.
The specific course aims are to provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge required to critically evaluate their role as a member of the multidisciplinary team, leading and managing nursing care. |
| Course description |
The course aims to provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge required to evaluate their role as an active member of a multidisciplinary team, leading and managing nursing care. The course focuses on theoretical ideas about teams, leadership and organisations to enable students to critically reflect on the role of the nurse and the personal skills required for effective communication and leadership. The values base and theoretical perspective of the personal leadership development of the students draws on the authentic leadership theory of Bill George (2015). However, within the course a range of perspectives on leadership including transactional and transformational are also explored.
Content includes:
- Theory of organisations drawn from sociological, anthropological and management science literature
- Skills and resources required to enable individuals and groups to work effectively and deliver quality care in organisations
- Leadership implications in failures in care drawing on Frances (2013), Vale of Leven (2014) and other inquiries into systemic
organizational failures in care
- Governance and quality assurance in organisations
- Leading and managing nursing care within a multidisciplinary team.
- Contemporary leadership research and policy context
- Development of self-awareness; communication; and contemporary leadership skills through critical self-reflection.
The emphasis in the course is two-fold. Firstly and emphasis on leadership, effective leadership, and the implications for organisations of ineffective leadership. Secondly a emphasis on the individual, their confidence, presence and versatility to lead and manage through focusing on self-awareness as the cornerstone of communication and communication habits.
This course engages students with the key concepts and skills through a range of learning activities including lectures and discussion to develop understanding of the theoretical concepts and their relation to a) healthcare organisations and b) the self.
Small group work in seminars will promote the development of critical thinking through learning from the perspective of other group participants. Groups will structured and focused on discussion and analysis of concepts and issues relevant to the course. Students will also reflect on their own experience
Students will participate in a number of workshops focused on developing their communication skills for managing challenging workplace situations, and developing their leadership potential.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically analyse multi-disciplinary working and how leadership, management, human factors, culture, policy and organisational functioning can impact on this
- Critically valuate nurses¿ and the multi-disciplinary team¿s role using suitable theoretical frameworks to analyse behaviours and consider how these are applied for effective leadership and management of person-centred nursing care
- Critically evaluate the qualities necessary for personal effectiveness and authentic leadership within organisations in relation to one¿s own nursing practice
- Critically evaluate Quality Assurance (QA) approaches to addressing quality of care issues and performance management within a multi-disciplinary team
- Critically evaluate the impact of organizational culture, systems and leadership on the provision of safe and effective patient care in a range of environments
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Reading List
George B (2016) Discover your True North John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, New Jersey
Taylor R and Webster-Henderson B (Eds) (2017) The Essentials of Nursing Leadership Sage: Los Angeles
Francis (2013) Report of the Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust Public Inquiry
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20150407084231/http://www.midstaffspublicinquiry.com/report
Engagement with Care Quality Commission reports
https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Through the workshops students become skilled communicators developing a range of skills as well as reflecting on their resilience in challenging situations and the attributes and skills that they could develop further. This course encourages students to engage with the notion of courage in relation to meeting their potential as they move into the workplace, but also in terms of courage to speak up and the communication skills to enable them to do this effectively in professional situations that demand this. |
| Keywords | Leadership,managing care,nursing |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Aisha Holloway
Tel: (0131 6)51 1525
Email: Aisha.Holloway@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | |
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