Organizational Risk Management Interview

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Select a health care organization in your community to conduct an interview with an appropriate risk management employee. The organization can be your current employer, or a different health care facility in your community. Acute care, urgent care, large multi-provider private medical clinics, assisted living facilities, and community/public health clinical facilities are all ideal options to complete the requirements of this assignment. Make sure to select an individual who can provide sufficient information regarding how that organization manages risk within its facility to answer the questions below.

In your interview, address the following:

  1. Identification of the challenges the organization faces in controlling infectious diseases.
  2. Risk management strategies used in the organization's infection control program, along with specific examples.
  3. How the facility's educational risk management program addresses key professional issues, such as prevention of negligence, malpractice litigation, and vicarious liability.
  4. Policies the facility has implemented that address managing emergency triage in high-risk areas of health care service delivery.
  5. Strategies the facility utilizes to monitor and maintain its risk management program.

Post-interview, compose a 750-1,000 word summary analysis of the interview to include the questions above as well as the following elements:

  1. A brief assessment of the organization's risk management program, including what works well and what could work better (the pros and cons).
  2. Action steps you would take to improve the program. Select one area and provide your rationale and possible steps required to implement your suggestion.

Cite appropriate references as needed to support your statements and rationale.

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Explanation & Answer

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Running head: RISK MANAGEMENT INTERVIEW

Kindred Healthcare
Institution:
Date:

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RISK MANAGEMENT INTERVIEW

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Interview
Me: What challenges do you face in controlling infectious diseases?
Risk management employee: We face many challenges such as tight budget, changing nature of
the diseases and lack of infection surveillance tools.
Me: what risk management approaches do this organization use to control infection?
Risk management employee: we do monitoring to adherence of infection control guidelines,
understanding the resistance pattern of this diseases and minimizing the number of entry areas.
Me: How do educational risk management program address important professional areas?
Risk management employee: Well, to prevent negligence, there is a form that each employee
signs when one is employed whereby one promises to adhere to the guidelines of the
organization.
Me: How does the organization manage emergency triage in areas which are at high risk?
Risk management employee: the organization has set policies such as using the order of severity
to treat patients and availing health professionals in the high-risk areas throughout the day and
night.
Me: What strategies do the organization use to monitor as well as maintain the risk management
program?
Risk management employee: The organization uses rules and guidelines which are supposed to
be followed by all as well as a regular assessment of employee adherence to the risk management
program.

RISK M...


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