Risk Management In Healthcare

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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