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Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Creativity and Innovation in Practice

HSC504 · Team Management in Health and Social Care — Week 5 of 16

CourseHSC504
Week5 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Creativity and Innovation in Practice

  1. Continuous quality improvement models
  2. Co-design workshops and agile care adaptations
  3. Overcoming resistance to change
  4. Risk-managed autonomy in service innovation
  5. Quality Improvement and Service Improvement Projects for Nurses
  6. How to handle resistance to change in a care home
  7. Challenges of quality improvement in health care

What you will be able to do

  • 2.3 Explain how to foster creative and innovative ways of working in a team.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain how to foster creative and innovative ways of working in a team.

Study materials

Videos

  • Quality Improvement and Service Improvement Projects for Nurses · YouTube · Carol Forde-Johnston · 33 min · for registered students
  • How to handle resistance to change in a care home · YouTube · We Lead · 13 min · for registered students
  • Challenges of quality improvement in health care · YouTube · Harvard Online · 5 min · for registered students
  • Innovation for care closer to home: opportunities and challenges · YouTube · The King's Fund · 3 min · for registered students
  • EBCD 1: What is experience-based co-design? · YouTube · The King's Fund · 2 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Developing New Products and Services, ch. 6: Facilitating Creativity and Innovation · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 134–152 · for registered students
  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 14: Organizational Structure and Change · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 593–639 · for registered students
  • Entrepreneurship, ch. 4: Creativity, Innovation, and Invention · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 143–174 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Theories of Team Development
  • Week 2: Leadership Styles and Accountability
  • Week 3: Conflict Resolution in Health and Social Care
  • Week 4: Building and Sustaining Team Culture
  • Week 5: Creativity and Innovation in Practice
  • Week 6: Strategic Direction and Shared Vision
  • Week 7: Workforce Planning and Role Distribution
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Monitoring Team Performance and Delivering Feedback
  • Week 10: Managing Persistent Underperformance
  • Week 11: Safer Recruitment and Collaborative Selection
  • Week 12: Applying Team Management in Health and Social Care in pract…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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