Risk Management In Nursing Care

Patient safety is a top priority for every healthcare organization, but knowing where to direct patient safety can be a difficult task. To help guide organization in deciding where to focus their patient safety efforts, risk managers are hired by healthcare facilities to monitor and manage risk and liabilities. Nurses working in healthcare facilities keep their patients safe by risk management, according to studies. Interviews with RN revealed that nurses continually assess the clinical environment for possible risks of harm and use their knowledge of potential risks and knowledge of the patient to prevent harm. Successful risk management require nurses to recognize risks before they reach the patient, constantly prioritize the identified risks,

then act to prevent those that would cause the patient the most serious harm (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2014).
Although the compliance and ethics program can be flexible based on an organization's size provisions established under the health reform law require that the program be reasonably designed, implemented, and enforced so that it will effectively prevent and detect criminal, civil, and administrative violations of the law while promoting quality of care ( Dornfield, 2015).