Homework: Risk Management
Dennis, 73 years old, went to the doctor, who prescribed bloodwork and other laboratory tests. Dennis went to the restroom to provide a urine sample. The laboratory technician came and drew blood from a different patient without going through the usual protocol. Dennis came back from the restroom and waited for an hour before complaining. The nursing team then contacted the laboratory and were informed the technician had drawn the blood from the wrong patient. This means that the blood results from a different patient would have been recorded for Dennis. An incident report was necessary.
Poor communication and a lack of teamwork result in many errors in the service delivery process. Success of the risk management program depends largely on team efforts. Individuals, units, and departments work in synergy with different responsibilities and roles to achieve the risk management objectives. Teamwork is also indispensable to patient safety and the delivery of quality services.
Answer the following questions to complete this report:
a. What are the attributes of a successful healthcare team?
b. What function does a team approach support?
c. Risk managers coordinate risk management with other teams at every level of the health organization. What do their responsibilities include?
d. What does successful risk assessment require?
e. Historically, after the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IoM) report on the alarming numbers of preventable medical errors in healthcare organizations, how did risk managers' orientation change?
f. In risk management, what does treating the risk involve?
g. What do ethical standards expect of health workers?
h. The risk manager works with other team leaders on training. What does this involve?
i. What are some factors included on the never events list of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)?
j. What is part of high-reliability organizations?
k. What are important factors to include in a risk treatment (risk reduction or risk mitigation) plan?
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.