Risk Management

Assignment Details ( 2-3 pages)

For this assignment, choose a health care organization that interests you (e.g., long-term care facility, medical center, acute-care hospital). Select 1 area of the organization that requires a risk assessment, and discuss the importance of risk management to this area.

Include at least 2 of the following to guide your discussion, where applicable to the area you selected:

• Patient safety concerns
• Medication administration concerns
• Environmental safety hazard concerns
• Record privacy concerns
• Diagnostic error concerns
• Technology concerns
• Surgical error concerns

The use of 3 scholarly sources (e.g., textbook, article from the CEC Library) is required.