As the new risk manager in your health care organization, your director has assigned you the responsibility of drafting the organization’s risk management policy and procedure. This assessment stemmed from your director’s perception that employees lacked knowledge and awareness of risk management’s contribution to furthering the organization’s safety and quality improvement efforts. Likewise, your director also saw evidence that departments within the organization were inconsistently applying risk management principles to their daily work practices.
The guidance you have received from your director about writing this policy and procedure is that it needs to include all of the following headings. It also needs to answer all of the questions underneath each heading:
• Purpose Statement:
o How can a risk management program help this organization advance its strategic safety and quality goals?
• Key Risk Management Terms:
o What is the definition for each of these risk management terms?
Risk prevention.
Risk reduction.
Regulatory compliance.
Patient safety.
Adverse event.
Near miss.
• Risk Categories and Risk Identification Techniques:
o Discuss 3 of the 5 following health care risk categories, as well as their corresponding risk identification technique:
Financial.
Human capital.
Clinical.
Strategic.
Legal/ethical.
o What risk management strategies will the organization use to identify potential organizational risks? Be sure your narrative identifies and describes such risk identification
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