The Purpose of Risk Management in Healthcare

CLINICAL RISK
MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH
CARE
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Introduction: • As per the AHRQ national health disparity report
2013, the rate of harm with respect to the stays at
the hospitals is around 25.2 % within 100 admissions.
• The major contributors to these hospital acquired
conditions include the adverse drug events, medical
errors, or sudden accidental patient falls (Hopkin,
2018).
• It has been observed that these kind of conditions
arises due to the lack of communication while facing
any kind of problem.
• The organizational leaders are required to pose as
system thinkers and analyze the workplace to check
in for the safety concerns and address any risks with
punitive reactions.
• This in turn will help building a safer healthcare
organization (Ginter, Duncan & Swayne, 2018) and
prevent the occurrence of any kind of healthcare
hazard.

Patient Safety Principles:
• Proper identification of patient and their case
study along with designing a proper care chart
for them (Dekker, 2016).
• Prevention of patient had over and safety
• Assessing the medical accuracy while giving care
to a parent to the patient
• Practicing correct intervention or performing
correct procedure at the needed part of the
patient’s body
• Taking appropriate precautionary measures to
prevent the spreading of any kind of infection.

Clinical Risk Management With
Relevation To Patient Safety:
• The success of risk management program
depends on delivering a safe and secure human
performance
• Establishing systems in place for reporting
patient falls, retained swabs, misidentifying the
patients or occurrence of medicine errors (Grol &
Wensing, 2020).
• One of the prime responsibilities of a medical
student is to take the correct steps whenever
they come across an unsafe situation.
• Ensuring correct medication is being administered
is mandatory as part of delivering optimal care
• Clinical risk management helps in the
identification of any such potential errors and

References:
• Hopkin, P. (2018). Fundamentals of risk management:
understanding, evaluating and implementing effective risk
management. Kogan Page Publishers.
• Ginter, P. M., Duncan, W. J., & Swayne, L. E. (2018). The
strategic management of health care organizations. John Wiley
& Sons.
• Grol, R., & Wensing, M. (2020). Effective implementation of
change in healthcare: a systematic approach. Improving
Patient Care: The implementation of change in health care, 45-
71.
• World Health Organization. (2017). Patient safety: making
health care safer (No. WHO/HIS/SDS/2017.11). World Health
Organization.
• Dekker, S. (2016). Patient safety: a human factors approach.
CRC Press.