Course Title: Leadership, Supervision and Mentoring in Health Care
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Leadership, Supervision and Mentoring in Health Care
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
NURS2187 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
173H School of Health and Biomed |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 1 2024 |
Course Coordinator: Dr Sinead Barry
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 0520
Course Coordinator Email: sinead.barry@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Bundoora West
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
This course provides you with opportunities to develop skills in consumer-centred, recovery focused leadership, supervision and mentoring within the nursing profession. The current status of the profession will be examined to provide a context for the conceptualisation of effective leadership skills. The notion of leadership will be explored in relation to clinical practice change, delegation and shift leadership and improving the delivery of a quality experience for consumers. Clinical teaching, supervision and mentorship will be explored through review of teaching models and needs as well as strategies and skills required to facilitate this process in an effective manner.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
This course contributes to the development of the Program Learning Outcomes for MC268 Master of Mental Health Nursing in the following ways. The Mental Health Nurse:
- PLO 1: Acknowledges diversity in culture, values and belief systems and ensures his/her practice is non-discriminatory and promotes dignity and self-determination.
- PLO 4: Collaboratively plans and provides ethically based care consistent with the mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, social and cultural needs of the individual.
- PLO 5: Values the contributions of other agencies and stakeholders in the collaborative provision of holistic, evidence based care and in ensuring comprehensive service provision for people with mental health issues.
- PLO 6: Actively pursues opportunities to reduce stigma and promotes social inclusion and community participation for all people with mental health issues.
- PLO 7: Demonstrates evidence based practice and actively promotes practice innovation through lifelong education, research, professional development, clinical supervision and reflective practice.
- PLO 8: Practices by incorporating and reflecting common law requirements, relevant statutes and the nursing profession’s code of conduct and ethics. Integrates international, national, local and state policies and guidelines with professional Standards and competencies
On successful completion of this course you should be able to:
- Critically review the historical and contemporary notions of leadership within the nursing profession, including the contributions of key theorists and their contribution to mental health nursing leadership.
- Investigate the emergence of contemporary notions of leadership within nursing practice and hypothesise their implications for future delivery of care.
- Apply a range of leadership theories and leadership styles within the context of mental health care settings.
- Identify and discuss the key leadership concepts and skills required for effective clinical practice change, delegation and shift leadership.
- Examine the impact of nursing leadership on the delivery of Recovery focused care and quality consumer experience.
- Review mentoring models underpinning effective supervision and coaching within nursing and identify relevant strategies and skills.
- Identify the role of mentoring and preceptoring within clinical practice and how it impacts on consumer outcomes.
Overview of Learning Activities
Learning activities you will undertake during this course include a mixture of lectures, class discussion and self-directed learning exercises including directed reading of academic literature to provide a solid theoretical basis to help you to achieve professional practice.
The assessment associated with this course will comprise of formative and summative elements and incorporate a variety of assessment modes. Your assessments will primarily take the form of written work requiring reflection and critical analysis. Your participation in classroom or online activities will also form part of your summative grade.
You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course.
There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Critical Leadership Analysis Written Essay
Weighting 40%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
Assessment Task 2: Written Report and Oral Presentation
Weighting 50%
This assessment task supports CLOs 4, 5. 6 & 7
Assessment Task 3: Lectorial Participation Reflective Activities
Weighting 10%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.