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Healthcare Management 1RISK MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENTBy (Student’s Name)Professor’s Name College Course Date
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Healthcare Management 2Part 1Q1. Reflecting on StatementRisk management is defined as the systematic process of identifying, evaluating, andaddressing potential and actual risk.Risk management according to the article is way more thanjust health care, it goes beyond clinical care. Risk management entails reducing the possibilitiesof error. Risk management in health care involves reducing costs on matters that may causeinjury, disability and stress. Risk management is done. However, the risk management alsoenhance quality health care delivery. Risk management entails a process that detects,communicates and reports any detected deficiency in a system that would otherwise led todamage and a costly mistake. It basically entails running the day to day programs that is free ofmistakes to achieve quality healthcare. For instance before an operation, the anesthetist has to assess the patient by asking questionsabout their health. They need information such as their allergies, their health history and anyrecurring conditions. This is a form of risk management because the anesthetist aims at ensuringthat once the patient is a sleep during the operation then all risks are eliminated for a successfulsurgery.The definition of risk stands out to be the probability or threat of liability or loss maybecaused by vulnerabilities and solved. Risks can occur in when human interact with machines, thecomplex technology that might be involved in the hospital, negligence among others. Forinstance before surgery the scrub nurse is supposed to sterilise all the equipment that will be usedfor surgery. They need to make sure that all this equipment are 100 percent sterile to use on thepatient and will not cause any risks to the patient. However, the predominant underlying causes
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Healthcare Management 3of medical errors are as follows; communication problems, inadequate policies and procedures,technical failures and staffing patterns and work flow. Risk management being involved in reducing risks and errors that is just one aspect ofprovision of quality clinical care. Clinical care is just more than just risk management, howevertogether with other aspects and branch of hospital health care provision maximizes the quality ofhealth care (Bagheriyan, Setareh, Nezhadnik and Niknam 2011).After having an understanding of risk management, it is also crucial to have an in depthunderstanding of clinical care, but not just clinical care but quality of health care. Clinical care ismuch more than just the professional aspect but it is intertwined among many other level ofperformance. Patients too are involved as far as quality care is concerned. The patients’ freedomof choice and access to quality health care provision is also part and parcel of quality care. Thistherefore brings us to the question what exactly is meant by the term quality clinical care(Chourey 2015). Clinical care has its standardized measure of operation as per the terminology it is related tothe discrete elements of nursing practice. Therefore, this practice has to be done if fulfilment andto provide maximum care. Clinical care basically covers the essence of patient care, dataelements, care needs that sums up to resources, the workload that sums up to productivity, costsof care and lastly the outcomes which sums up to quality. The nurses are the main personsinvolved in clinical care. They need to give clinical care during their stay in the hospital and alsoafter their stay in the hospital. If the care was to end only at the time the patient was in hospitalthen it would really not be care given. The clinical care as used by nurses in health care givingfacilities involve a sit step series processes
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Healthcare Management 4AssessmentDiagnosisOutcome identificationPlanningImplementationEvaluationHowever, the stablished fact is that risk management does not in any way mean clinical acre,but it is just a broader aspect of clinical care that has to be implemented in many stages of healthcare. Without a risk management process then the clinical care given would be put at jeopardy asillustrated by Maxwell (1984).Q2. Assessing Quality When the need to assess quality comes in handy, Donabedians classification of healthcare is seen. He divides health care into its structure, process and outcomes. However, Maxwellclassification is quality improvement based on the methodical assessment of the implementedprogramme. Maxwell bases his findings on these aspects of dimension of quality (Pandey andSharma 2017).Effectiveness, efficiency, Appropriateness, acceptability, Access, and Equity. Therefore,this process of evaluation can be applicable in the provision of health care to outpatients’ clinics.Outpatients’ clinics offers services to patients and they leave. Maxwell Classification assessoutpatient clinics, on the clinical examinations and investigations, clinical interventions such as
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