Strategic Management in Action
Thursday 1st November 2018
Strategic Management in Action
Ms Kathleen Kinsella
Programme Summary:
This programme will provide participants with evidenced based knowledge to develop their theoretical and practical understanding of strategic management. The programme will introduce participants to the models of strategic management utilised in healthcare delivery and will draw on strategy as a means of promoting evidence based practice through values based care that is driven by ethics and excellence, thereby enhancing participants’ confidence, skills and competences in the development and implementation of strategy.
Programme Aims:
- To provide participants with up-to-date, evidenced based knowledge to develop nurses’ and midwives’ theoretical and practical understanding of strategic management- in- action by appraisal, analysis and application of strategy principles relevant to practice.
- To support participants in enhancing their confidence, skills and competences through evidence based knowledge and practice relevant to strategic management.
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the programme, participants should be able to:
- Introduce the central concepts and approaches in strategic management, in order to provide participants with an understanding of the principal components of strategic management theory and its application in nursing, midwifery and healthcare.
- Critically discuss how a sound knowledge of strategic management will contribute to improving patient care delivery in diverse areas of practice.
- Identify how strategic management principles will contribute to ethical, values based best practice.
- Critically analyse how knowledge of strategy will promote evidence based practice- in- action thereby enhancing participants’ skills and competences in care delivery.
- Critically evaluate approaches to healthcare and organisational models of healthcare that draw on strategy, as a means to providing quality based care delivery.