Educational Program on Risk Management – 500 words (2 pages)

The purpose of this assignment is to create an educational program that supports the implementation of risk management strategies in a health care organization.

In this assignment, you will develop an outline for an “in‐service”‐style educational risk management program for employees of a particular health care organization that will then form the basis for a PowerPoint presentation in Topic 5. Select your topic for this educational session from one of the proposed recommendations or changes you suggested in the Risk Management Program Analysis – Part One assignment to enhance, improve, or secure compliance standards in your chosen risk management plan example.

Create a 500‐750-word comprehensive outline that communicates the following about your chosen topic:

1. Introduction: Identify the risk management topic you have chosen to address and why it is important within your health care sector.
2. Rationale: Illustrate how this risk management strategy is lacking within your selected organization’s current risk management plan and explain how its implementation will better meet local, state, and federal compliance standards.
3. Support: Provide data that indicate the need for this proposed risk management initiative and demonstrate how it falls under the organization’s legal responsibility to provide a safe health care facility and work environment.
4. Implementation: Describe the steps to implement the proposed strategy in your selected health care organization.
5. Challenges: Predict obstacles the health care organization may face in executing this risk management strategy and propose solutions to navigate or preempt these potentially difficult outcomes.
6. Evaluation: Outline your plan to evaluate the success of the proposed risk management program and how well it meets the organization’s short-term, long-term, and end goals.
7. Opportunities: Recommend additional risk management improvements in adjacent areas of influence that the organization could or should address moving forward.

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Introduction

Within any healthcare organization, there are different prevalent risks to the community, the patient, the staff, and the healthcare organization at large. This means that risk management in any healthcare organization is of great significance to ensure there is proper development, assessment, close monitoring and implementation of the potential risks to totally prevent or minimize the exposure of risks (Allen‐Duck et al., 2017). In this paper we are going to carry out an examination of a risk management program with a safe care and patient environment, with the main focus being on the community. The management program selected is the fall prevention strategy used in a community setting.

The Risk Management Plan and Rationale

The risk management plan is the reduction and prevention program. This program mainly targets the geriatric population that is within the community. The main focus of the program is on ensuring the identification of different people in the community who are at risk of falls, and ensuring that there is proper implementation and provision of the evidence-based interventions. In addressing the fall reduction, prevention is the main step (Haddad et al., 2019). The rationale for choosing the fall prevention and the reduction program as the significant type of risk management plan is due to the fact that falls have a major risk to both the health and independence of the geriatric population. Note that falls are the leading cause of injuries and death among the geriatric population. Moreover, they have effects in terms of healthcare costs and health of the individuals. It is important to come to a realization that falls can be prevented. The program gives a clear picture of how falls can be prevented in a community setting, and thus geriatric population able to successfully maintain their health and independence.

The Standard Administrative Processes and Steps

The process of risk management in a healthcare organization involves carefully identifying the context, the process of risk analysis, risk evaluation, and risk management. Identifying the context involved include identifying the different areas that are of high priority which need risk management when it comes to the care that patients receive. Another step that can be of great significance is identification of risks by making sure that you are aware of different risks that are within the healthcare services and primary environment (Simsekler et al., 2018). After risk analysis, there is the comprehension of the already identified risks. This is done through analyzing the primary causes, the intensity of already identified risks, and the actions of control that are available against the risks identified. Carrying an evaluation of the already identified risks is of great significance toward prioritizing based on the how severe the risk. This is done using the risk analysis score. Risk management is the last step, where different appropriate measures are successfully implemented for the purpose of preventing and ensuring minimization of risk occurrence (Moncada & Mire, 2017).

The healthcare sector has a great impact on individuals, and thus the quality of care is a significant marker in terms of competition in the health market. There is need to have an integration of an effective risk management procedure in healthcare organizations. For better outcomes in the healthcare department, there is need to have the Total Quality Management programs. Through this program patients experience low payment costs; customer satisfaction is improved by the organization and different risks that the organization is going through can be easily managed (Mahoney et al., 2017). A culture that embraces risk management using the evidence-based evidence and guidelines helps in successfully achieving risk management programs.

In the community of choice, the elderly individuals were reporting high rates of falls and thus identified as the high priority area. There was the implementation of fall prevention and reduction program in the community as a result of the high rates of falls.

The Key Organizations and Agencies

Some of the agencies that are responsible of regulating the provision of quality care include: The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO); the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); the Joint Commission and Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). AHRQ is mainly aimed at performing research to ensure improvement in the quality of care provided to patients, and their safety too. JCAHO is aimed at making sure that all the healthcare institutions are able to provide quality care to patients (Jiménez-Rodríguez et al., 2018). DHQP is in charge of offering protection to patients, the different healthcare providers and also ensures the promotion of quality care. NCQA works toward making sure that different care plans meet the required quality standards. The joint commission works toward ensuring that different healthcare organization are able to enhance the quality of care they provide; ensure the safety of different patients, and lower the chances of medical errors in healthcare institutions.

The Process of Evaluation and Compliance

The chosen risk management program aligns with the outlined requirements of the joint commission that works toward ensuring the safety of patients and offering of quality care. The DHQP requirements are also met through the improvement of the safety of patients. The joint commission plays a significant role in ensuring that different healthcare institutions are able to prevent falls and different injuries associated to them (Lam et al., 2018). The fall prevention program makes all individuals aware through education on the significance of preventing falls. Safety information is communicated effectively to the community and different healthcare providers. It is important to note that the prevention of falls is everyone’s responsibility.

The Recommendations

There is need to integrate patient education on the risk of falls in the chosen program. The Joint Commission is in charge of offering support to raise awareness about the risk of falls. Different stakeholders are educated on the relevant prevention strategies of falls.

There is need for the fall prevention program to adopt the interprofessional approach. The Joint Commission through the interprofessional team is to be established to come up with a whole approach in dealing with reduction and prevention of falls.

There is need to make use of standardized and validated tools in identifying different risk factors for falls in the community.

To inform improvement efforts, there is need to perform Post-Fall management, and reevaluation of individuals who have successfully sustained falls.

References

Allen‐Duck, A., Robinson, J. C., & Stewart, M. W. (2017, October). Healthcare quality: a concept analysis. In Nursing forum (Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 377-386). Retrieved from

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nuf.12207?casa_token=h4sri-l7sp0AAAAA:GZtRIqX22OJJaqeClXZOUEqbh9TuAoac3w1kAClY5EQMm3VkSQDHxHrl7mKHkyFqZCgkX83uYMU-j5J-

Haddad, Y. K., Bergen, G., & Florence, C. (2019). Estimating the economic burden related to older adult falls by state. Journal of public health management and practice: JPHMP, 25(2), E17. Retrieved from

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc6314899/

Jiménez-Rodríguez, E., Feria-Domínguez, J. M., & Sebastián-Lacave, A. (2018). Assessing the Health-Care Risk: The Clinical-VaR, a Key Indicator for Sound Management. International journal of environmental research and public health, 15(4), 639. Retrieved from

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/4/639

Lam, M. B., Figueroa, J. F., Feyman, Y., Reimold, K. E., Orav, E. J., & Jha, A. K. (2018). Association between patient outcomes and accreditation in US hospitals: observational study. bmj, 363. Retrieved from

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4011

Mahoney, J. E., Clemson, L., Schlotthauer, A., Mack, K. A., Shea, T., Gobel, V., & Cech, S. (2017). Modified Delphi consensus to suggest key elements of stepping on falls prevention program. Frontiers in public health, 5, 21. Retrieved from

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00021/full

Moncada, L. V. V., & Mire, L. G. (2017). Preventing falls in older persons. American family physician, 96(4), 240-247. Retrieved from

https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/0815/p240.html

Simsekler, M. E., Ward, J. R., & Clarkson, P. J. (2018). Design for patient safety: a systems-based risk identification framework. Ergonomics, 61(8), 1046-1064. Retrieved from

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140139.2018.1437224?casa_token=kknl5v3_yX4AAAAA:N5B1sf7ctHXaQBj21wxqZQJm9bWm_fF4T57VOBGnXmVdXUBuZz5HGLYXJHJ3vFSV5tuOdKnXHVzT9aXn

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