Risk Management in Healthcare
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Risk Management in Healthcare
There is are a lot of people working and visiting healthcare institutions, so the risk-taking program is essential to ensure the safety of people and property around the facility during occurrences. There are risk managers whose role is to ensure there is a plan for every issue that might come up in the healthcare sector (Reamer, 2015). Quality programs are also important because it ensures service provided to clients and staff are of high quality based on the client’s expectation as it involves the health of the people.
The role of risk managers includes preparation of risk budget, which entails what the institution is willing to do risk in case of an occurrence. It evaluates risks that are previous and current faced by the organization and also future risks that are likely to be confronted by the organization, achieved by assessment and evaluation. They also organize training for staff members that would create awareness on how to react in an occurrence. This ensures that the organization is up to date on the insurance policies on its staff and property to provide proper compensation after an event and also keep safe records on insurance policies.
Quality managers ensure that services that are provided by an organization are up to standard for this to happen in healthcare. They have to work with risk managers in the mitigation of risks in the following ways (Zadfallah & Ahmadvand,2017). Quality managers also ensure supplies to the institution are of high quality, thus reducing the chances of having risks occurring in the organization.
In conclusion, the general responsibility of risk and quality managers is to ensure the safety of the patients in health care. They, therefore, provide the clients with foreseen risks and also keep the organization out of trouble.
References
Reamer, F. G. (2015). Clinical social work in a digital environment: Ethical and risk-management challenges. Clinical Social Work Journal, 43(2), 120-132.
Zadfallah H, & Ahmadvand, A. (2017). A qualitative system dynamics approach to clinical risk management. In The 13th International Conference on Industrial Engineering.