Master of Health Care Management

Build your skills in leadership and management to further progress your health care career. This course is for you if you currently work in quality, safety, and risk roles within community, mental health, primary and aged care and are looking to transition into a management position, or are currently in a middle management position wishing to progress further.

The course includes a focus on safety and quality to address the increased need for leadership and governance of healthcare for patient safety. It provides the hard and soft skills needed within a clinical context, including leadership and managerial skills, financial management in healthcare, policy and human factor considerations.

As part of the course you'll undertake hands-on learning through project work, which focuses on an aspect learned within the course that can be applied to a clinical setting. This strong emphasis on professional practice is informed by research evidence, ensuring you have the concepts, insights and practical skills relevant to leading change and driving innovation in the healthcare sector.

3 reasons to study a Master of Health Care Management at Murdoch

1. Take advantage of free workshops and seminars to help you with writing, statistics and analysing data, ethics, how to run surveys and research as a postgraduate student.
2. Be taught by leading academics who are qualified nurses with experience across Australia with research expertise in patient safety, leadership, resilience and management.
3. Choose to complete an applied health services project through a health industry placement or a health care management research project of your choice, where you'll design a research project related to health care management.

What you'll learn

Build essential skills and knowledge to meet your career or study goals. Topics you'll cover include:

• Safety and quality in health care
• Leadership in health care
• Bioethics and law for health care leadership
• Health policy in Australia and beyond
• Managing in a health care environment

Your future career

As a graduate of this course you will fulfil industry demand for increased middle management skills. The delivery of high-quality services is essential within the health industry, particularly in private and aged care sectors. Careers could include:

• Accreditation Coordinator
• Quality and Risk Manager
• HR Projects Director
• Health Care Clinic Manager
• Clinical Nurse Manager

Professional accreditation

M1217 Master of Health Care Management is accredited by the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM). The School of Nursing promotes excellence and continual improvement of university training by providing a national university accreditation program. The national university accreditation standards have been developed through broad consultation with employers, industry groups, health managers and universities, to ensure that graduates who complete these programs are competent to perform the core tasks they face in employment.

Your document checklist

Ready to apply? Before you start, make sure you have all the following documentation ready for a quick application.

Compulsory documents

Evidence that you meet Academic entry and English language requirements such as:

• Official Academic Transcripts and Certificates of Completion (of your highest academic study)
• Evidence of meeting the minimum English language requirements

Recommended documents (if applicable)

1. Most recent Curriculum Vitae if applying using professional experience
2. Change of name documentation
3. Marriage certificate
4. Unit outlines if applying for Advanced Standing