Question

Health Care efforts are intended to enhance the quality of care, increase compliance with regulations, reduce liability, and maximize safety for patients, visitors, and staff. No single discipline has the capacity to address all of the requirements placed on health care organizations and health care professionals.

We continue to encourage risk managers and other health care professionals to enhance their abilities in these skill areas for the benefit of patients, co-workers, organizations, and communities. Adopting changes to care standards and coordinating efforts as new initiatives take the stage will reduce liability exposure and lead to even better outcomes.

1. How Risk Management and Patient Safety are related?

2. How do the efforts of A Risk Manager affect the patient Safety?

Answer 1

1. Risk management and patient safety are related because they both reflect common objectives of patient welfare and prevention of any harm to the patients. Risk management work on different measures that ensure patient healing, maintaining a safe environment, meeting all healthy quality standards and compliance with the regulations. Patient safety is about following all the quality measures to ensure the safety of the patient while he is being healed at the health care centre. Patient safety implies the rule of reducing the risk of any harm that is unnecessary in the healthcare process to the minimum.

2. The risk managers focus on patient safety and quality care with minimum risk of any harm to the patient. They integrate the two important goals of healthcare which are delivering quality healthcare to the patients and minimizing the risks in the procedure. They ensure frontline staff with easy access that follows the risk avoidance policies and procedures at all times to everyone who requires it. They provide access to critical information to provide patient safety and quality care. They implements procedures to detect and mitigate risks in the healthcare systems by every staff and also monitor the risk prone areas and practices for mitigating risks and ensuring pateint safety.