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PSR5101 Managing Risk in the Clinical Environment
SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY
Credit Points: 20
 
Description:

This unit will focus on the four key domains of clinical risk as articulated by the Federal Department of Health and Ageing (pressure area care, medication error, hand hygiene and falls).  Students will examine core concepts about contributing disease processes, intrinsic, and extrinsic factors, that may increase individual patient's clinical risk, using exemplars and case studies from their clinical workplace to authenticate learning and assessment related to the management of risk in the clinical environment.



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This Unit is part of the following Courses / Unit Sets
T52Graduate Certificate in Patient Safety and Clinical Risk
L68Master of Healthcare Studies
 
 
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Last Updated - Higher Education: 15/03/2013 VET: 20/05/2013