Target group

Nurses with post-secondary education/short higher education, with experience, graduates of the main degree.

General objectives

1. Training of health care management professionals at a competitive level in the European Union;
2. Development of specialists able to generate relevant solutions in line with the changes and instability of the hospital reforms;
3. Replacing the theoretical perspective specific to classical university education with a pragmatic approach, one that emphasises personal contributions equally with the amount of information to be assimilated;
4. Create an institutional framework for postgraduate training that provides the prerequisites for continuous training in line with new policies in this field;
5. Acquiring the knowledge necessary for both professional and personal development.

Specific objectives

At the end of the programme the learner will have to:
1. To acquire basic concepts and notions in hospital management, in order to enable senior nurses and care managers to carry out efficient administrative activities;
2. Develop analytical and individual study skills for further training in health management;
3. To learn the basics of the quality management system and quality documents at hospital level;
4. Practical application of theoretical concepts to hospital document management, quality assessment of hospital services;
5. Making health service delivery more efficient;
6. Knowledge of the functions, principles and specific aspects of health service management;
7. Identify priorities and establish criteria for prioritising them.

Skills

1. Training and development of managerial competences and skills, complementary to the initial medical training of nurses/midwives, in order to improve cost-effectiveness and efficiency of health services;
2. To familiarise nurses/midwives with elements of conceptual grounding, perspective in the management of new and problem situations that hospitals may face;
3. Using quality indicators to analyse the structure, processes and outcomes of activities carried out by health care providers (as institutions);
4. Know how to select staff according to current organisational needs, regularly evaluate staff for organisational development purposes;
5. Improve vertical and horizontal communication and develop teamwork skills within the organisation.