If you were in charge of making sure this type of event never occurred again, what steps would you implement into the risk management plan?
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1-a Using the GCU Library, locate and summarize an allied health malpractice or negligence case study. If possible, select a case within your chosen field of study (Nursing). What went wrong? What workplace safety, risk management, and/or quality improvement steps were involved? What could have been done differently? If you were in charge of making sure this type of event never occurred again, what steps would you implement into the risk management plan? 150 words
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references from the GCU Library to support your response.
2-b A formal risk management plan demonstrates a health care organization’s approach as well as support for risk management and, ultimately, patient safety. Accessing information from your own employer/organization or using the internet to find an allied health care organization located in your city or region, identify the goals and objectives, scope, and functions of an existing risk management plan. How does the plan “measure up” in terms of meeting ethical and legal responsibilities to stakeholders? How might you improve it? Explain. 150 Words.
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references from the GCU Library to support your response.
3-a The Joint Commission launched the National Patient Safety Goals in 2003 and most recently updated the goals again for 2020. Many years have now passed since the inception of these goals. How has the overall focus of the goals changed in the intervening years? What conditions in the health care marketplace have driven the need for change? 125 Words
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references to support your response.
3-b Looking ahead, select one area of the current National Patient Safety Goals program and make a prediction as to what might change in that area based on technological or other advancements. Consider patient identification standards, communication processes, and infection control protocols, among others. 125 words
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references to support your response.
4-a Risk management functions and quality improvement functions in an organization can overlap in terms of addressing patient and staff safety. For example, this includes the declared pregnancy safety requirement, any COVID PPE safety issue, quarantine, or sanitation occupational safety standards. Using information from your employer/organization’s risk management plan, or that of an allied health care organization in your city or region, identify and summarize two functions that commonly overlap in this manner. What common factors lead to the overlap? Does the structure work for the organization you selected? Why or why not?
Provide a minimum of two references from the GCU Library to support your response. 150 words
4-b Locate and select an article that discusses performance-based trends in patient safety, risk management, or quality management in health care organizations. Provide a summary of your findings and explain how and why the trends would or would not be effective or successful in your workplace or in an allied health organization in your chosen field. 125 words
Provide a minimum of two references from the GCU Library to support your response.
5-a The assignment in this topic requires you to develop a performance management plan for a hypothetical new allied care organization in your field. What regulatory standards will apply to the organization? What accreditation standards? How will these regulations affect the development of your plan, and what measures will you take to ensure the organization is in compliance? 125 words
Provide a minimum of two references from the GCU Library, other scholarly sources, government websites, or peer-reviewed articles to support your response.
5-b Review and summarize the organizational model and structure for your employer/organization or that of an allied health organization in your chosen field. What features of the model work well and contribute to overall performance of the organization? Which features do not work well, or do not work at all? If you had the authority to do so, what elements of your organizational model would you change, and why? 150 words
Provide a minimum of two references from the GCU Library, other scholarly sources, government websites, or peer-reviewed articlrswes to support your response.
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