Nursing Risk Management

On April 4, 2017 I had attended a weekly risk management meeting with my nurse manager Linda. I must say that this meeting was a very informative meeting. As we know, risk management is a very important department to have throughout each health care facility. They ensure safety for both the nurse and patient. When ask how risk management relates to nursing I was able to discover that risk management relates to nursing by identifying and eliminating potential safety hazards which thereby reducing both staff and patient injuries (Black 2014). Risk management benefits both patient and nurse safety on a daily basis. In the hospital the most common areas for hazards are patient falls, failure to monitor, failure to ensure patient safety, medication errors and improper performance of procedures (Black 2014). With having risk management on board they are able to help the units determine ways to protect the patients as well as the staff. They have risk
As we know, safety is a major concern in the healthcare system and risk management is here to identify these issues and help reduce whatever the issue may be. On a daily basis, each unit or hospital seems to portal over 50 safety portals or more which, according to Health First’s Risk Management team is a very high amount of safety portals. That number alerts them that something is wrong and some changes need to be made to reduce the amount of safety portals.
As far as health care policy is concerned, risk management can aid in changing policies or identify ways to reduce the safety risk according the current policies that the hospital holds. They understand how poor quality care can affect the patient and nurse so they try to use what they know to make changes. If the policy doesn’t seem to be working they attempt to speak up and inquire about making a change to the policy if there is a true need to change the current