Educational Presentation: Risk Management in Healthcare (Nursing)

This assignment is a PowerPoint presentation focusing on risk management in healthcare, specifically addressing the importance of hand hygiene to improve patient safety and overall health outcomes. The presentation covers several key areas including the introduction to risk management, the rational...Read More

Nursing
assignment
RISK MANAGEMENT
IN HEALTHCARE

SIGNIFICANCE OF RISK MANAGEMENT IN
HEALTHCARE
▪ Reducing health risk among patients
▪ Improving the system of health and
social care
▪ Promote health and wellbeing among
patients.
▪ Maintaining compliance with rules
and regulations

INTRODUCTION
• Due to prevalence of health related risk, risk
management must be practiced.
• Improving patient’s quality of life
• Lowering rate of mortality
• Risk management strategies must be
implemented

RATIONALE
• In-spite of knowledge, there are very few people, who
followed the strategy of hand hygiene.
• Effective management intervention must be taken
• Frequency of hand washing must be monitored
• Tracking the record of compliance
• Giving the staffs with the feedback regarding their
performance
• Implement routine system monitoring policy

SUPPORT
• Both mental and physical support is to be provided to the patients
• Sudden death of huge number of patients has raised the question of patient
safety.
• Decreased patient safety
• Safety of workers must be improved by offering them with necessary education
• Develop healthy working environment

IMPLEMENTATION OF RISK
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
• Evaluating hygiene compliance among
staffs
• Offering the staffs with necessary
education
• Generating awareness among staffs
• Enable them to follow the techniques
towards using hand wash as per
professional standard

IMPLEMENTATION OF RISK
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
• It is important to implement effective risk management strategy
• Promoting health and wellbeing among patients
• Use hand wash properly
• Offering them with tool and resources
• Encouraging them through training
• Monitoring their activity
• Track their compliance with hand wash.

CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENT
RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
• Challenges towards implementing risk management strategy
• Unwillingness among workers
• Reluctant attitude towards complying with the practice of
using hand wash
• Personal belief and perception
• Lack of materials to conduct educational training
• not having ample sanitizing materials

SOLUTION OF MITIGATING THE
CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING RISK
MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
• Awareness about the importance of using hand wash
• Strict monitoring of the activity of patients
• Involving stakeholders
• Implementation of routine system monitoring of risk management
• Educate people about the strategy to maintain hygiene.
• Increase compliance
• Awareness about the importance of using hand wash
• Strict monitoring of the activity of patients
• Involving stakeholders
• Implementation of routine system monitoring of risk management
• Educate people about the strategy to maintain hygiene.
• Increase compliance

EVALUATION OF RISK MANAGEMENT
STRATEGY
• Hand hygiene is to be maintained in health and
social care sector
• Avoiding patients from infected diseases.
• Implementation of effective monitoring system
• Evaluating staff’s attitude towards risk
management
• Comply with the rules and regulations related to
hygiene

OPPORTUNITY TO IMPLEMENT RISK
MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IN
HEALTHCARE
• SAFE ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE HOSPITAL
• PROMOTE SAFETY OF BOTH PATIENT AND CARE GIVER
• REDUCE HEALTH BURDEN
• IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOME

RECOMMENDATION
• Non-antimicrobial soap must be used while washing hands.
• It is to be used in every situation
• Hand wash must be used used after contacting with the skin
of patients.
• Hand must be washed after removing the gloves too.

CONCLUSION
• Patient safety is the major factor
• Health and social care organizations must prioritise this
factor
• Hand wash must be used by the healthcare practitioners
• To promote health and wellbeing of patients
• Reducing the hygiene related risks

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