492 risk management paper draft 2
Risk Management Paper
Edgard Delos Santos
492/ NUR Senior Practicum: Leadership and Management
January 26, 2015
Professor Kathy Smith
I interviewed James Alviar RN, the Coordinator of Risk Management at my current place of employment the Queen's Medical Center West Oahu. I asked him if there were any current risk management issues at our facility that we could discuss, but he said all current issues were confidential and he could not divulge any information to me. Instead, James pointed me in the generic direction of hospital falls that is a nationwide risk management issue and also pertains to us at Queens Medical Center. This paper will be discussing risk management's role, what falls are, how falls are addressed, how risk management would remedy the problem, and how the similar situation is discussed at another facility.
Queen's Health Systems Risk Management (Risk Management) serves the Queen's Health Systems (QHS) by developing and applying an integrated program for the preservation of QHS's capital assets and resources. The role of the Risk Management Department is to plan, direct, and coordinate the risk management and insurance function of Queen's Medical Center, subject to and consistent with the Queen's Health Services Mission Statement, policy and procedures, guidelines and applicable laws. Risk management is a process with four major components: identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring. Risk management addresses many issues that include patient safety, potential medical questions or errors, federal regulations, and legislation impacting healthcare. At Queen's Medical Center, there are two options to file an event report. The employee may submit an event report anonymously or log onto the hospital intranet and utilize the RL's Risk Management software. The software is an easy step by step program for writing a thorough incident report to be submitted to Risk Management. The purpose of the occurrence report is to:
Assist in
Edgard Delos Santos
492/ NUR Senior Practicum: Leadership and Management
January 26, 2015
Professor Kathy Smith
I interviewed James Alviar RN, the Coordinator of Risk Management at my current place of employment the Queen's Medical Center West Oahu. I asked him if there were any current risk management issues at our facility that we could discuss, but he said all current issues were confidential and he could not divulge any information to me. Instead, James pointed me in the generic direction of hospital falls that is a nationwide risk management issue and also pertains to us at Queens Medical Center. This paper will be discussing risk management's role, what falls are, how falls are addressed, how risk management would remedy the problem, and how the similar situation is discussed at another facility.
Queen's Health Systems Risk Management (Risk Management) serves the Queen's Health Systems (QHS) by developing and applying an integrated program for the preservation of QHS's capital assets and resources. The role of the Risk Management Department is to plan, direct, and coordinate the risk management and insurance function of Queen's Medical Center, subject to and consistent with the Queen's Health Services Mission Statement, policy and procedures, guidelines and applicable laws. Risk management is a process with four major components: identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring. Risk management addresses many issues that include patient safety, potential medical questions or errors, federal regulations, and legislation impacting healthcare. At Queen's Medical Center, there are two options to file an event report. The employee may submit an event report anonymously or log onto the hospital intranet and utilize the RL's Risk Management software. The software is an easy step by step program for writing a thorough incident report to be submitted to Risk Management. The purpose of the occurrence report is to:
Assist in
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