Risk Management Policy and Procedure

Write a 3-4 page risk management policy and procedure for a health care organization. Analyze a specific issue that occurred in a health care organization and apply risk management best practices to it for the purpose of early risk identification and risk reduction or elimination in the future.

APA Format

SCORING GUIDE MUST BE FOLLOWED TO THE LETTER

Resources:

Risk Events

• American Society for Heathcare Risk Management. (n.d.). Healthcare risk management: The path forward [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.ashrm.org/pubs/files/white_papers/Execu…
• American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. (2014). Serious safety events: A focus on harm classification: Deviation in care as link getting to zero white paper series (2nd ed.) [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.ashrm.org/pubs/files/white_papers/SSE-2…
• Darbyshire, P., Ralph, N., & Caudle, H. (2015). Editorial: Nursing’s mandate to redefine the sentinel event. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(11/12), 1445–1446.
• Ewen, B. M., & Bucher, G. (2013). Root cause analysis: Responding to a sentinel event [PDF]. Home Healthcare Nurse, 31(8), 435–443.
• Health Care Administration Undergraduate Library Research Guide.
• The Joint Commission. (2018). Sentinel event. Retrieved from https://www.jointcommission.org/sentinel_event.asp…
• Surprise, J. K., & Simpson, M. H. (2015). One hospital’s initiatives to encourage safe opioid use. Journal of Infusion Nursing, 38(4), 278–283.
• Watson, D. S. (2009). Sentinel events. AORN Journal, 90(6), 926–929.

Risk Management’s Purpose

• Anonymous. (2015). Risk management poised to grow as healthcare evolves. Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, 49(6), 433–435.

Risk Identification

• 6 ways to improve your root cause analysis. (2013). Healthcare Risk Management, 35(7), 76.

The following two suggested resources also appear under the suggested resources for Assessment 1: Address a Patient Safety Issue. You will find that many of the tools and techniques used to detect errors in the health care industry are applicable to risk, patient safety, quality, and performance improvement. These departments have mutual yet divergent interests. Each department will use the tools to identify information pertinent to their interests. For example, the risk manager may use a specific tool to abstract details pertaining to the potential for litigation. The safety officer, however, may be focused on details related to the root cause of the error.

• Arabi, Y. M., Al Owais, S. M., Al-Attas, K., Alamry, A., Alzahrani, K., Baig, B., … Taher, S. (2016). Learning from defects using a comprehensive management system for incident reports in critical care. Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, 44(2), 210–220.
• Howell, A.-M., Burns, E. M., Bouras, G., Donaldson, L. J., Athanasiou, T., & Darzi, A. (2015). Can patient safety incident reports be used to compare hospital safety? Results from a quantitative analysis of the English National Reporting and Learning System data. PloS ONE, 10(12), 1–15.

Risk Manager

• Sanders, P. (2016). Seven strategies for partnering with risk managers. Nursing Management, 47(10), 18–19.
• Shostek, K. (2014). Risk manager’s perspective. AORN Journal, 100(4), 422–423.