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On completion the candidate will be able to:
•understand the principles, philosophy, and benefits of process improvement sciences in healthcare
•distinguish between value-adding and non-value-adding elements in a process and categorise types of non value add in the process
•be able to apply well established technical and creative Lean, Six Sigma and person -centred techniques to solve well-defined and narrowly scoped process problems within his/her own organisation
•be able to work effectively as a leader of a cross-functional problem-solving team, taking responsibility for the work of team members demonstrating a proper appreciation of the importance of effective communication in managing organisational change
•engage with inter and multi disciplinary colleagues in a collaborative, inclusive and participative and person-centred way
•demonstrate, through successful completion of a narrowly scoped process improvement project, that the learner understands the discipline of specified improvement sciences and can deliver meaningful outcomes to patients, relatives and staff to be agreed as part of the project and/or patient benefit for the learner’s employer.
Day 1: Defining and understanding problems in healthcare/ Visualising complexity
Day 2: Measuring for improvement
Day 3: Data: - understanding, analysis and presentation.
Day 4: Planning for improvement - a platform for success.
Day 5: Monitoring the improvement.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 35 |
Tutorial | 5 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 5 |
Field Trip/External Visits | 5 |
Specified Learning Activities | 100 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 100 |
Total | 250 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: Team literature review. | Week 8 | n/a | Graded | Yes | 20 |
Assignment: Individual Completion of MOOC: Organisational Culture and Person-Centred Approaches to Care |
Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | Yes | 20 |
Group Project: Team based Process Improvement Project presentation. | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | Yes | 40 |
Presentation: Team presentation of specified components of the Define Phase of the DMAIC model. | Week 1 | n/a | Graded | Yes | 20 |
Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
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Repeat (CFP) | Within Three Semesters |
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
• Peer review activities
Not yet recorded.
Name | Role |
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Karen Connolly | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Aileen Igoe | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Michelle McGuirk | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Professor Martin McNamara | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |