Advanced Practice

Resources are always limited in healthcare – whether it’s doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, critical equipment, or simply money, there’s usually not enough to do everything we would like to do. More recently, we are starting to understand how environmental factors – from climate change to microplastics to biodiversity loss – will increasingly impact human health, healthcare and the wider economy in the years to come.

This talk will give a preview of our new “Sustainable Health Economics” subject. What will the accelerating ecological crisis mean for health, the economy and the availability of resources for healthcare? How can health economics help healthcare systems to navigate this world of planetary boundaries – and where do we need a new economics to get us out of this crisis?  What would a truly sustainable economy mean for healthcare, and how can you prepare professionally for the future we really face?

This masterclass is a showcase all of the principles in critical care in the management of a sidecar motorcyclist that suffered life-threatening injuries and who received critical care management in the prehospital setting, went through to ICU, ECMO transfer to Melbourne, back to Hobart ICU, and discharged home.

It will demonstrate all of the aspects of critical care that we are trying to deliver in the course and a practical example of the importance of high performing clinicians, critical care teams and integration into the wider critical care system.

Healthcare systems are complex, and in such systems, it could be challenging to understand how quality and safety is constructed and maintained.  It is important to use a systems thinking approach in improving the delivery of healthcare, as it increases the ability to understand complex work processes, to predict system behaviour and to design sustainable solutions for healthcare delivery issues. Systems thinking involves exploring the characteristics of components within a system and how they interconnect using a holistic lens.

In our increasingly  dynamic media environment every industry professional needs the skills, knowledge, and tools to communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences. This webinar is for anyone who wants to inspire and promote change in their field through effective and ethical communication and storytelling

Learn how digital health can enable a more equitable, responsive, sustainable, person centred health and social care system. We will share key insights to successful digital health adoption, introduce key concepts and demonstrate how digital health can advance health care systems and contribute to the achievement of the Quintuple Aim. Join us to learn how a short course and graduate certificate can boost your employability and professional development.

Digital Health is available as a choice unit in the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Master of Advanced Practice. The University also offers a Graduate Certificate in Digital Health.

This masterclass will focus on the latest developments in our understanding of the diseases that lead to dementia, why dementia is a substantial public health issue, and new approaches to therapeutics, risk reduction and early detection of dementia.

The Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice includes a specialisation in Dementia. The Dementia specialisation offers a comprehensive understanding of dementia from the perspectives of individuals, families, communities, health care systems and governments.

The Australian healthcare sector must enhance its resilience to operate in an increasingly complex and uncertain future environment. Our upcoming webinar will explore the key principles of organisational resilience how to evaluate organisational resilience in your healthcare setting.

Leading Resilient Organisations is a core unit in our Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience, and is also available as a choice unit in the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Master of Advanced Practice.

This masterclass will introduce you to some of the cognitive heuristics and biases that we all share, and will look at the ways that they can lead us astray in our reasoning and decision making. We will then begin to discuss what we can do about this.

Critical thinking: Reasoning Skills for Health Professionals is a core unit in  the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Master of Advanced Practice.

This masterclass will focus on the 8 Waste's in healthcare. Using evidence-based principles of healthcare redesign, we demonstrate how reducing waste can lead to improved outcomes for patients, families and carers, healthcare staff and organisations.

The Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice includes a specialisation in Health Service Improvement, which focusses on providing leadership skills to drive healthcare improvement through evidence-based solutions. Introduction to Healthcare Redesign is also is available as a choice unit in the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Advanced Practice.

Are you ready to take your career in health service management (safety and quality) to the next level? This webinar is your gateway to exciting opportunities and valuable insights.

Join us to gain awareness into why pursuing education in Safety and Quality in Health service management is a wise investment in your career and personal development. It equips you with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in a critical and growing field within the health and social care industry while contributing to improved person-centred care and healthcare system efficiency.

The Governance specialisation in the Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary healthcare quality and safety with a focus on person-centred care. You will gain a broad understanding of governance, clinical governance and risk management within health and human services, focussing on recent developments and changes.

In the evolving global business economy, businesses must enhance and transform their logistics and supply chain systems to gain competitive advantage. With global supply chains evolving and expanding constantly, the understanding of how to develop and implement sustainable, effective, and efficient logistics and supply chain management strategies is key to the success of businesses in any industry.

The Supply Chain and Logistics specialisation in the Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice will prepare you for management and senior administrative roles in a range of industries, including health. This specialisation will prepare you to succeed in a diverse range of areas including transport policy and administration, freight forwarding, exporting and importing, logistics and supply chains, and other critical elements of global international industry.

Our health systems have yet to fully embrace evidence use to inform change processes. This masterclass will explore theoretically informed approaches to the design, implementation, evaluation and sustainability of public health interventions.

Public health units feature prominently in the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Advanced Practice. Choice unit options in public health include Introduction to Public health, Introduction to Epidemiology, Systems Thinking in Public Health, Outbreak Management, and Non-Communicable Disease Prevention.

Ever wondered how public health units find out about outbreaks and then figure out what caused them? Join us for this webinar where we introduce the surveillance of infectious diseases and the ten steps of outbreak management.

This project straddles two study areas within the Advanced Practice suite of courses – healthcare redesign and medication safety.
Acute care provided in the hospital’s emergency department (ED) is a key component of the healthcare system that serves as an essential bridge between outpatient and inpatient care. However, due to the emergency-driven nature of presenting problems and the urgency of care required, along with increasing busyness, the ED is generally more prone to unintended medication regimen changes and similar medication errors than other departments. Ensuring the quality use of medicines (QUM), defined as “choosing suitable medicines and using them safely and effectively”, remains a challenge in the ED and hence requires special attention.

An area that has received considerable attention is obtaining a patient’s complete and accurate medication history prior to presentation, known as ‘best possible medication history’ (BPMH), as early as feasible on hospital attendance. This may form the basis for initial and subsequent care plans, if a patient is admitted, following presentation to ED. Another important consideration is having a clinical conversation between a pharmacist and a medical officer to optimise treatment plans and intercept any medication management issues early in the ED.

In line with these cornerstones, the Tasmanian Department of Health approved a 12-month partnered pharmacist medication charting (PPMC) project in the Royal Hobart Hospital ED. A multidisciplinary working group developed the PPMC care model. This talk will present an evaluation of the program, utilising a mixed-methods pragmatic design, by an independent University of Tasmania research team.