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Benchmark - Risk Management Program Analysis - Part Two

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Risk management Program Analysis-Part Two

Introduction

A risk management plan is a vital aspect of a facility when mitigating risks. In the

characteristics explained in the first section, patient falls demonstrate one of the challenges in the

healthcare industry. With this risk, multiple factors impacting the facility are vital to its public

image and funds management. Overall, a facility with numerous falls reported could negatively

impact the outside population with plans to seek medical intervention from the facility,

especially when bringing in the old for medical attention (Ishi et al., 2023). The instance would

significantly harm the expectations and sustainability of a facility.

Also, the instance of an individual rendering themselves vulnerable will result in a

financial burden being borne by the facility. Therefore, the individuals should seek legal

intervention to hold the facility accountable and pay a significant fine. Therefore, facilities

should abide by the principles and suggestions put in place by the federal government to ensure

patient safety is assured. A facility's leadership is obligated to provide all its patients are well

taken care of by offering patient care in a safe environment. Also, there is a need to develop a

healthcare initiative that targets minimizing patient falls and possibly doing away with these falls

(Ishi et al., 2023).

Joint Commission Evaluation

The joint commission has put in place various measures that ensure that effective risk

management techniques have been put in place (Davis & McCauley, 2023). These approaches

are targeted at seeing to it that patients are always safe. The Joint Commission offers the

actualization of several resources and factors that will enhance safety via the minimization and

tracking of falls to ensure the overall wellness of all patients. To ensure the effectiveness of this
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approach, the commission functions alongside its collaborators for the method to be

implemented effectively. This ensures that collaborators participate fully in actualizing fall

avoidance plans.

The Joint Commission sees that healthcare facilities abide by all the suggestions (Davis

& McCauley, 2023). To establish whether or not the facilities abide by, the body actively

examines the facility in actualizing the safety approaches. During this evaluation, it seems the

quality approaches are well incorporated. Also, it targets assessing the functionality of the nurses

in attending to the patient. How effectively the patients are tracked by the organization and

enhancement of the surroundings, the patient receives treatment in to ensure patient falls are well

avoided. Additionally, Joint Commission conducts question-answer sessions with multiple

practitioners to acquire more information regarding their operations. The body will also award a

score based on the processes in several criteria factors.

Roles Different levels of Administration play

The operational laws of the facility are the vital actualization aspect for safety during an

admission period in a facility. Those in leadership alongside the lawmakers have a responsibility

of seeing to it that this policy is adhered to as a way of assuring patients of their safety.

Therefore, the patients are safe from the JCs sentinel events that may cause injury, reduce their

response to education, worsen their health status, or even pass on. The laws are essential and

issued to the individuals that should handle risks. According to ethics, this personnel should

ensure that falls reported are recorded. This facilitates tracking of the improvement rate. Overall,

when mitigation attempts are incorporated, there is an expectation that the fall rates will reduce

significantly.
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Risk managers should handle observation, recording, and actualization tasks linked to

risk within a facility. The main target of a risk manager should be doing away with all dangers,

including falling with the target of zero-rating the instances. Therefore, they will see that all

tools, tracking equipment, and other agencies come up to reduce and navigate the cases.

Risk Management and Ethics of Providers

Those in leadership positions are responsible for seeing to it that patients are assured of

their safety. Therefore, the approach of the safety initiative calls for a holistic approach to see

that the expected outcomes may be attained. Thus, the practitioners and other relevant

collaborators must attempt to regulate the policies and the laws put in place by the health

principles alongside those designed by facilities they operate in that fall minimization targets

occur. Therefore, the medical personnel tracking the patient's targets strictly focus on their job to

ensure everything works out appropriately, thus keeping them ready to handle risks on time.

Similarly, the caregivers are expected to give their services out of compassion and abiding by

ethics, ensuring patient safety and satisfaction. All healthcare practitioners should abide by the

ethical conditions that control their functionality leading to the welfare of the patients (WHO,

2021).

Collaborators, those in managerial positions, and directors taking part in management

tasks contribute significantly to seeing that they provide the correct tools for employee

compliance. This aspect translates to the fact that the nursing and medical providers abide by it

since failure to do this will impact the facility negatively in an instance of risk. These attempts

result in high chances of taking by ethics in a healthcare facility. To advocate for ethical

concerns, facilities must award the most ethical staff members to promote accountability of their

operations. This method will offer a vital effort towards ensuring employees comply with these
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standards. Overall, promoting the enhancement of fall minimization within the facility is the

responsibility of all collaborators. Additionally, promoting ethical principles is vital to ensure

that the employees and all collaborators have the correct mindset to avoid hospital falls (WHO,

2021). Extra efforts, such as educational programs that stress minimizing falls, helped enhance

compliance that needs risk managers to act on the frontline to avoid these risks.

These leaders have a role in the actualization of these initiatives. Seeing to it that the

needed ethics, compliance issues, and risk principles are the second vital aspect that the facility

ensures. Three, there is a need to conduct an audit to discover the procedure and how thriving

strategies have been actualized. Managers will see that the employees abide by the set standards.

The directors will target maintained ethics in the facility at all levels.

Quality-Improvement Procedures

The facility implemented various strategies to minimize the chances of falls to attain a

zero-fall initiative. Therefore, the phases have a foundation of education and training of human

equipment to appropriately contribute positively to ensuring good patient health. The forums

contribute towards the abiding of the staff in the procedure of navigating through risks in the

facility. Therefore, the monitoring team, including the facility leadership, must utilize practical

communication skills to help them acquire the correct audience in passing down their message.

Also, it is necessary to establish a root cause assessment to allow the facility to incorporate better

measures in examining the relevant challenges in conducting to the fall vulnerabilities and their

avoidance.

Also, Healthcare facilities must concentrate on seeing that regular enhancement

initiatives are embraced to minimize the risk instances. Therefore, it was necessary to group the

patients as vulnerable to falls and those less vulnerable (Shankar & Li, 2023). Also,
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improvement factors, such as lighting enhancement, regular checking up on patients to attend to

their needs, provision of the conditions, and incorporation of resources such as wheelchairs, are

suggested (Ishi et al., 2023). Also, therapy sessions are incorporated. Overall, the potential

reduction of the hospital falls and outcomes is a vital outcome expected in any facility.
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References

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Ishii, T., Matsumoto, W., Hoshino, Y., Kagawa, Y., Iwasaki, E., Takada, H., ... & Oyama, K.

(2023). Walking aids and complicated orthopedic diseases are risk factors for falls in

hemodialysis patients: an observational study. BMC geriatrics, 23(1), 1-10.

Shankar, K. N., & Li, A. (2023). Older Adult Falls in Emergency Medicine, 2023 Update—

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World Health Organization. (2021). Global patient safety action plan 2021-2030: towards

eliminating avoidable harm in health care. World Health Organization.