PD3: Professional Development in Nursing: Leading & Managing Change - HEA00160H
- Department: Health Sciences
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: H
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Academic year of delivery: 2025-26
- See module specification for other years: 2024-25
Module summary
Learners will explore theory of change management. Explore safety, risk and quality. They will use information from audit and research and draw upon the theories of how people work in teams to develop a change management plan.
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| A | Summer Term 2025-26 |
Module aims
Develop students’ abilities to be effective change managers and leaders in healthcare settings.
Module learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students will be able to:
1. Identify opportunities to engage with stakeholders to improve services and care
quality.
2. Discriminate between change management strategies.
3. Apply appropriate change management strategies to improve the quality of care.
4. Lead, manage and coordinate teams based on an understanding of the human factors that impact
on services and quality care.
5. Critically evaluate different types of evidence that inform an understanding of leadership,
change management and service improvement.
Module content
Human factors - power/ Educating others (professionals), Power / Horizontal violence, Equality & Diversity /
Delegation / Confidence , Safety & risk/ Quality and risk (including safe staffing) /
Recommendations /Reflection - PDSA, Delegation / Safety & risk, power/ Educating others
(professionals Simple intervention, Developing a business case
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 100 |
Special assessment rules
Non-compensatable
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 100 |
Module feedback
Written feedback for the summative assessment is provided on the standard proforma, within the timescale specified in the programme handbook.
Indicative reading
Burnes, B. (2014) Managing Change. 6th Edn. Harlow: Pearson
NHS Leadership Academy (2013) Healthcare Leadership Model [online]. Available at:
https://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/resources/healthcare-leadership-model/ [accessed 28 March
2019] Gopee, N. & Galloway, J. (2017) Leadership and Management in Healthcare.3rd Edn. Los Angeles:
Sage.