Course Title: Contribute to organisational effectiveness in the health industry

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term2 2014

Course Code: EMPL7051C

Course Title: Contribute to organisational effectiveness in the health industry

School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences

Campus: City Campus

Program: C4321 - Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance

Course Contact: Veemita Kaul

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4662

Course Contact Email: veemita.kaul@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 30

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

There are no pre-requisites and co-requisites for this course.

Course Description

This course describes the skills and knowledge required for effective organization outcomes in the allied health industry by practicing and promoting legal and ethical work practices to protect client safety and enhance outcomes for the organization and its clients in the broader allied health industry context.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

HLTHIR402D Contribute to organisational effectiveness in the health industry

Element:

Contribute to client and organisation outcomes

Performance Criteria:

Ensure work undertaken reflects the role of the organisation and the range of services it provides

Ensure work undertaken reflects the nature and needs of client groups accessing the services of the organisation

Work with an awareness of how the organisation's operations are financed

Recognise the role of other relevant organisations and individuals that contribute to client outcomes

Maintain and encourage positive relationships between own organisation and other organisations and individuals that contribute to client outcomes
 

Element:

Contribute to organisational improvements

Performance Criteria:

Contribute to organisational improvement strategies

Participate in organisational improvement activities and functions

Monitor own work practice to contribute to improvement of organisation practice and performance
 

Element:

Promote ethical work practice

Performance Criteria:

Ensure client confidentiality is maintained in accordance with organisation policy and procedure

Promote respect for rights and responsibilities of clients in the organisation

Encourage colleagues/team members appropriately to comply with confidentiality requirements, and maintain client rights and responsibilities

Ensure all work undertaken reflects and promotes understanding of and compliance with the principles of duty of care, legal responsibilities and related organisation goals and objectives
 


Learning Outcomes



Details of Learning Activities

The learning activities include-
 

  • Accessing online learning resources through RMIT learning hub
  • Research work for information about the industry


Teaching Schedule

The delivery design of this course allows this module to be delivered online with one introductory face to face teaching class on 8th Oct.

 The online support is provided by the tutor through online learning hub.


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

There is no prescribed text for this course as comprehensive course material will be provided by the teacher through RMIT Learning Hub.


References

Online learning materials can be accessed using the RMIT Online Learning Hub.
The online learning materials listed include:

Subject outlines
Lecture notes
Assessment details
References


Other Resources

The students can access library for more resources like-
• Videos
• Articles of interest
• useful external links
• Learning Lab


Overview of Assessment

The assessment will involve online activities and assignments with questioning to address appropriate application of knowledge.


Assessment Tasks

The assessment tasks will be in the form of

1. Online quizzes- to determine the underpinning knowledge of the students regarding the Australian health industry and the role of allied health industry, financial arrangements in this industry and role of an allied health assistant in maintaining the ethics and privacy of clients.
 2. Research project- to research any selected facility for  the role of the organisation and the range of services it provides,understanding and compliance with the principles of duty of care, legal responsibilities and related organisational goals and objectives.
3. Activity booklet completion.

The students need to be deemed competent in all the assessment tasks to be deemed competent in this course.

The due dates for the assessments are provided in the assessment schedule.


Assessment Matrix

Other Information

This is a core competency so the students need to be competent in this course to proceed to elective courses of the program.

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