CA4S059 - Clinical Management 01 Sep 2024 - 31 Aug 2030 | Version 4

Associated Module Information

Module Code: CA4S059
Module Title: Clinical Management
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences and Education
Faculty Group: Community and Professional Practice Nursing
Faculty Sub Group: Professional Nursing Practice
Module Leader: Mark Davies
Module Team: Emmajane Watkins, Jeff Evans
First Intended Intake: SEP 2024 Final Year of Intake: 2029
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 7
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100746 - clinical practice nursing
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 4
Valid From 01 Sep 2024
Valid To 31 Aug 2030

Module Aims

To enable the student to critically examine the management skills which may influence the quality and efficiency of patient/client care.

Content Summary

  • Political, legal, and ethical factors informing health/social care management.

  • Service commissioning

  • Human and physical resource management

  • Quality & governance processes; standard setting and audit; key performance indicators; workload estimation & skill mix.

  • Risk assessment/risk management.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 10
Seminar 20
Project supervision 16
Independent Study 130
Formative Assessment - Scheduled 4
Groupwork 10
Problem/Challenge based learning 10
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Critically evaluate how political, legal, and ethical factors may shape health/social care resource management and policy making.
LO2 Articulate the way in which quality and governance systems function to maintain high standards of patient/client, and effectively apply these within one’s own practice.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Synchronous Onsite Oral Assessment Presentation (Synchronous Onsite) 1 An oral presentation providing an overview of a management issue from practice 15 N/A 30 No 40
Asynchronous Assessment Case study 1 A case study that examining a management issue from clinical practice - drawing critically upon selected module themes. 0 3000 70 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Presentation (Synchronous Onsite) 1
Case study 1

Reading List

Barr, J. Dowding, L. (2022) Leadership in Healthcare 5th Ed. London: Sage.

Beauchamp, T. L. Childress, J. F. (2019) Principles of Biomedical Ethics 8th Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gottwald, M. Lansdown, G. (2021) Clinical Governance: Improving the Quality of Healthcare for Patients and Service Users 2nd Ed. London: Open University Press.

Ellis, P. (2021) Leadership, Management, and Team Working in Nursing 4th Ed. London: Learning Matters.

Marquis, B. Huston, C. (2020). Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing (10h Ed). London: Wolters Kluwer.

Swanwick, T. Vaux, E. (Eds) (2020) ABC of Quality Improvement in Healthcare. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.