Clinical Risk Management: Patient Safety and Healthcare Errors

This report focuses on clinical risk management within healthcare systems, emphasizing patient safety and the prevention of medical errors. The report highlights the importance of identifying and mitigating risks, including adverse drug events and patient falls, through effective communication and organizational leadership. It discusses the application of patient safety principles, such as proper patient identification and medication administration, and the implementation of systems to report incidents like falls and medication errors. The report references key literature and provides insights into creating a safer healthcare environment, emphasizing the role of medical students and the need for proactive measures to ensure optimal patient care. The report also emphasizes the importance of healthcare professionals taking correct steps when they come across unsafe situations.

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.