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    This document discusses clinical risk management in healthcare. It explains that clinical risk management aims to improve patient safety by identifying circumstances that put patients at risk of harm and preventing those risks. A four-step process to clinical risk management is outlined: identify the risk, assess the frequency and severity, reduce or eliminate the risk, and cost the risk. Learning objectives, knowledge requirements, and performance requirements related to clinical risk management are also summarized.

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    This document discusses clinical risk management in healthcare. It explains that clinical risk management aims to improve patient safety by identifying circumstances that put patients at risk of harm and preventing those risks. A four-step process to clinical risk management is outlined: identify the risk, assess the frequency and severity, reduce or eliminate the risk, and cost the risk. Learning objectives, knowledge requirements, and performance requirements related to clinical risk management are also summarized.

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    This document discusses clinical risk management in healthcare. It explains that clinical risk management aims to improve patient safety by identifying circumstances that put patients at risk of harm and preventing those risks. A four-step process to clinical risk management is outlined: identify the risk, assess the frequency and severity, reduce or eliminate the risk, and cost the risk. Learning objectives, knowledge requirements, and performance requirements related to clinical risk management are also summarized.

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    Topic 6

    Understanding and managing


    clinical risk

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    1
    Why clinical risk is relevant to
    patient safety

    Clinical risk management specifically is concerned with


    improving the quality and safety of health-care services
    by identifying the circumstances and opportunities that
    put patients at risk of harm and acting to prevent or
    control those risks

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    2
    Four-step process to clinical risk
    management
     Identify the risk

     Assess the frequency and severity of the risk

     Reduce or eliminate the risk

     Cost the risk

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    3
    Learning objective

    Know how to apply risk-management principles by


    identifying, assessing and reporting hazards and
    potential risks in the workplace

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    4
    Knowledge requirements

     The activities used for gathering information about risk


     Fitness-to-practise requirements
     Personal accountability for managing clinical risk

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    5
    Performance requirements
     Keep accurate and complete health-care records
     Participate in meetings to discuss risk management and
    patient safety

     Respond appropriately to patients and families after an


    adverse event

     Respond appropriately to complaints


     Maintain their own health and well-being

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    6
    Gathering information about risk

     Incident monitoring
     Sentinel events
     The role of complaints in improving care
     Complaints and concerns where the individual is
    responsible

     Coronial Investigations

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    7
    Sentinel events

    Unexpected occurrence involving death or serious


    physical or psychological injury and including any
    process variation for which a recurrence would carry a
    significant chance of serious adverse outcome

    Source: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, 1999

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    8
    Complaints

     Assist in maintaining standards


     Reduce the frequency of litigation
     Help maintain trust in the profession
     Encourage self-assessment
     Protect the public

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    9
    Fitness-to-practise requirements

     Credentialing
     Accreditation
     Registration

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    10
    Professional development and self-
    assessment

     Role of fatigue and fitness to practise


     Stress and mental health problems
     Work environment and organization
     Supervision
     Communication

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    11
    How to understand and manage
    clinical risks
     Know how to report known risks or hazards in the workplace
     Keep accurate and complete health-care records
     Know when and how to ask for help from an instructor,
    supervisor or appropriate senior health-care professional

     Participate in meetings that discuss risk management and


    patient safety

     Respond appropriately to patients and families after an


    adverse event

     Respond appropriately to complaints


    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide
    12
    Summary

    All health-care professionals should:

     Be responsible for their patients – not just the seniors


     Be personally accountable to prevent harm
     Identify areas prone to errors
     Work to maintain a safe clinical working environment by
    looking after their own health and responding
    appropriately to concerns from patients and colleagues

    Patient Safety Curriculum Guide


    13

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