Leading Through Change

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Leading Through Change

This session puts together improvement theory and contemporary leadership practice to maximise your success at achieving change at scale

By The ACHS Improvement Academy

Date and time

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST

Location

Online

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

Objectives:

  • An understanding of healthcare as a complex adaptive system.
  • Insight into the micro system processes that make up health care.
  • In depth understanding of leadership styles and those most likely to drive success in systems improvement.
  • Features of effective teamwork and the leadership styles.
  • Insight into how military leadership can provide lessons for health care leadership.

MPH (Hons), Grad Cert Med Ed, RN, RM

Adjunct Associate Professor University of Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health

Director, Improvement Academy

Bernie Harrison is the Director of the ACHS Improvement Academy. She has over 30yrs experience in health care, as a clinician, researcher and quality and safety (Q&S) expert. She has extensive experience in designing and delivering Q&S training programs in the Asia pacific region. Her training in quality improvement and patient safety occurred in the USA in 2001 and 2010 as a Fulbright Scholar. She has extensive experience in health care system redesign and has published a Breakthrough Collaborative (Harrison et al Vox Sanguinis 2014) in improving red cell transfusion in the elective surgical setting. She co-authored the Quality in Australian Health Care Study (MJA 1995), the most cited paper in the journal’s 100yr history. Her previous positions include: Executive Director of Hospital Performance for the National Health Performance Authority and Director in the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission. Her clinical experience as a registered nurse and midwife in the UK and Australia: maternity and child health , intensive care, aged care and mental health.

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