Risk management is the process of identifying, assessing, and prioritizing, risks of all kinds (whatisriskmangement.net, 2011). So what role does risk management play in healthcare? Any event that may cause an adverse effect on the healthcare facilities ability to perform is considered to be a risk. Risk management in healthcare may be the key for many organizations to reduce costs, improve surveys, reduce negative events, and have a lower professional liability cost. The Joint Commission (2012) defines risk management in healthcare as “the clinical and administrative acts undertaken to identify and evaluate the risk of injury to staff, patients and visitors and the risk to loss of the organization itself”.
This paper will explain key steps a pharmacy may take to identify and manage their risks, some typical or actual risks a pharmacy could experience and how each risk might negatively affect the facility and its stakeholders. This paper will also summarize the types of education, training, or policies that would help this type of organization mitigate these risks. Risk Management in a Pharmacy There are several key steps a pharmacy could take to assess what their risks are and control them. For example, according to Risk Management and Medical Liability (2011), there is a risk
In this assignment I will be discussing the difficulties that may arise when implementing anti discriminatory practice in health and social care settings. There are many difficulties that can arise when implementing anti discriminatory practice in health and social care settings, this include; 1. If care providers don’t understand the importance of promoting anti-discriminatory practice. 2. Care providers beliefs and values 3.
A well-developed natural disaster management plan crucially depends on carefully assessing and planning responses before, during, and after the disaster occurs. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security
Primary prevention involves reducing risk factors, which result from injury and illness. It maintains health lifestyles to achieve the well being level. For the secondary prevention, it involves early screening of diseases for early intervention and treatments before the appearing of the symptoms. Some of these are mammograms and blood pressure screening (Mason, Leavitt & Chaffee, 2011). This process of screening can minimize the disabling effect on the lives of individuals and further diseases complications.
Patient Privacy HCS 335 February 18, 2014 Patient Privacy In today’s health care organizations, patient privacy is a major problem within the health care system. Current improvements in technology have reformed the provision of health care and the systems used to record and retrieve health information. During the course of this paper, it will discuss the affect patient privacy has on the community and legal and ethical issues associated with patient privacy. It will also discuss managerial duties as well as proposed solutions to maintain patient privacy. Health care professionals have an obligation to protect the rights to patient privacy when it concerns patient’s personal and medical information.
The Importance of Accountability The Importance of Accountability Accountability is the approach that uses procedures and processes by which a party takes responsibility for its actions (Emanuel, 1996). The actions may either be positive or negative. The idea of accountability in the health care industry consists of three main parts: the location of the accountability, the domains of the accountability, and the procedures of the accountability (Emanuel, 1996). The first part of accountability or location of accountability refers to which party is to be held accountable for the actions. The second part or the domain of the accountability refers to what activity must be held accountable to the party.
| Understanding principles of health and social care practice | | | | | | | | Table of Contents Introduction: 2 Task 1.1 Principle of health & social Care to individual Support 3 Task 1.2 Procedures for protecting clients, patients and colleagues from harm: 3 Task 1.3 Benefit of Person-center approach: 3 Task 1.4 Ethical dilemmas and conflict in health & social care services: 4 Task2.1 Implementation of policies, legislation, regulations and code of practice in health and social care: 4 Task2.2 Development of local policy and procedure: 5 Task2.3 Evaluation of the impact of the policy, legislation, regulation and code of practices on organization policy and practice: 6 Task 3.1Explain the theories that underpin health and social care practice 6 Task 3.2 The significance of inter professional working 8 Task 3.3 using the nature - nurture debate and any other relevant theories, the likely impact of the social, and emotional developmental pattern 9 Task 4.1 Roles of Ward manager: 10 Task 4.2 Contribution of word manager on healthcare policy: 11 Task 4.3 Recommendations to increase contributions of word manager 12 Conclusion: 13 References 14 Introduction: Health and social care service has become a very important issue in the context of present social structure. Citizens are now much more concerned about their health issues and the social care services they are likely to get. Many of the countries are going with an aging population, so health and social care service has become a crucial issue to be provided. Thus knowing about the health and social care services, principles of these services, rules and regulations related with them and their implementation is very important. Task 1.1 Principle of health & social Care to individual Support Individuals are cared for in health and social care
Reimbursement and Pay-for-performance Theresa Kilgo HCS/531 December 16, 2013 Dr. Rachael Kehoe Reimbursement and Pay-for-performance There are a lot of problems within the health care system that State, Federal, and Local governments are trying to correct the matter by moving away from the fee-for-services model and move to the pay-for-service model. One of the problems is cost and efficiency of health care, and one of the ways that they are trying to fix the problem is with pay-for-performance. That can be defined as an incentive that provide financial funds to health care providers to carry out improvements focused on achieving prime patient issues, this program is widespread and many states have adopted the program, and many have a report that they have seen an increase in quality of care. This program was created to improve the healthcare systems, however, many authors have different meanings and roles of pay-for-performance but all agree on the definition and function of the program, “the objective of pay-for-performance initiatives is to link reimbursement to quality and efficiency as an incentive to improve the quality of health care, as well as reduce system wide costs” (Shi & Singh, 2012, p. 237). There are a lot of pros and cons of pay-for-performance in health care (see appendix for charts.)
Importance of Communication in nursing Aim of this assignment is to look into the importance of communication in nursing. The essay will comprise the definition, types and models of communication. It will also include the reflective model that will be used in the summative integrated assignment. Communication can either facilitate the development of a therapeutic relationship or cerate barriers[ Stuart and Laraia,2005].Health professionals became more aware of the critical role communication plays in health care in the late 20th century. But many of the problems faced by health care today is caused by failure to communicate properly.