Unit Synopsis
This unit prepares you to undertake a leadership role in healthcare contexts. In this unit, you will have the opportunity to analyse theories and models of leadership and reflect upon your leadership strengths and weaknesses. You will apply leadership theories and your selected leadership model/s to leadership roles in the healthcare setting. This unit enables you to focus on emotional intelligence and critique the concept of relational power to autonomous practice. Through the use of coaching and mentoring strategies learned in this unit, you will develop the capacity to lead, empower and inspire members of the healthcare team.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 1 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Students must be enrolled in CL22 Master of Clinical Nursing to undertake this unit. Pre-requisite: NURS20166. Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 25% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 35% |
| 3. Report | 40% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 16.67% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Student unit evaluations
Feedback Item 1 – Students enjoyed this unit and found there were clear unit requirements.
Continue to provide clear unit requirements.
Unit requirements were reviewed to ensure continued clarification for students.
Source: Student unit evaluations
Students reported they found the unit helped them develop useful knowledge / skills and that the unit was relevant to their degree.
Continue to have unit content that provides students with appropriate knowledge and skills relevant for their degree. Continue to consider assessments that relate to the workplace.
Assessments that are relevant to the workplace continue to be used. Unit content provides appropriate knowledge and skills relevant for the degree.
Source: Student unit evaluations
Student reported they learned from assessments and received useful feedback on their assignment.
Continue to provide useful feedback and create assignments that are relevant to the workplace.
Assignments that are relevant to the workplace continue to be used and feedback is provided in a thoughtful and considered way to help student learning.
Source: Unit evaluations
Students enjoyed this unit and found there were clear unit requirements.
Continue to provide clear unit requirements.
In Progress
Source: Unit evaluations
Students reported they found the unit helped them develop useful knowledge / skills and that the unit was relevant to their degree.
Continue to have unit content that provides students with appropriate knowledge and skills relevant for their degree. Continue to consider assessments that relate to the workplace.
In Progress
Source: Unit evaluations
Students reported they learned from assessments and received useful feedback on their assignment.
Continue to review unit assessments to ensure they relate to the workplace. Continue to provide considered feedback that is aimed at promoting student learning.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Analyse theories and leadership models and apply these in the healthcare setting to provide culturally competent, ethical, equitable and socially informed leadership of healthcare teams.
- Reflect on your leadership skills and develop strategies to enhance these skills to effectively lead healthcare teams.
- Apply advanced nursing leadership skills and knowledge to effectively lead healthcare teams, make evidence-informed clinical decisions, and facilitate innovative change management in healthcare settings.
N/A.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | |
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | |
| 3 - Report | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | |
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | |
| 4 - Research | • | • | |
| 5 - Self-management | • | ||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | |
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | • |
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |