Clinical Governance Course

This course is designed to help you to understand contemporary clinical governance – how it has developed and what is its structure and purpose.

By exploring case studies and reviewing Australian systems and processes you will have an opportunity to determine how to improve clinical governance and patient safety.

Learning objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe how clinical governance applies to you, your team and the organisation that employs you
• List the key criteria for good clinical governance for safety and quality in the health service organisations
• Engage in the risk management process, including reporting, monitoring and ongoing improvement
• Describe the role that continuing professional development has to play in the provision of high quality, safe  and effective patient care
• Select and apply appropriate frameworks and tools to enhance patient safety.

Upon purchase of the course, you will have four weeks of online access to complete the three modules. The four week period begins from the time of purchase and you can return to the course at any time within the period you are subscribed. It is estimated that you will need to spend approximately two hours per module and six hours in total on this course. You don’t have to complete the modules in one sitting. 

Certificate: Upon successful completion of this course you will receive a certificate which you should retain for your records.  

Course access: You will have access to the course for four weeks from the purchase date.  Please refer to your email for course access details. 

Continuing Professional Development

The Clincial Governance course offers the following:

• HEAL: 6 CPD hours
• RACGP: 12 CPD Activity Points (Activity ID: 183487)  
• ACRRM: 6 PDP Credit Points  
  (Activity ID: 18460)
• ACN: Endorsed for 6 CPD hours*
  
  * ACN has allocated 6 CPD hours according to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia – Continuing Professional Development Standard.