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Section 2-5: Risk and Risk Analysis

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Section 2-5: Risk and Risk Analysis

Risk/Assignee Probability Risk - Qualitative Score Risk - Quantitative Score First Response Management
Examples:
  • Patient Falls.
Person Handling Risk:
N/A All medical staff is trained in falls.
High in the acute care and long-term care settings, and for certain patient populations High risk 5 Mitigate:
Examples:
  • Ensure bed rails are always up when patients are in bed.
  • Use bed alarms if patient is at high risk for falls.
  • Ensure wet floors are cleaned up promptly.
  • Use prominent signage warning of wet floors and block access.
Contingency:
Examples:
  • Notify physician.
  • Apply comfort measures, ice, pillows, splint patient injury as appropriate.
  • Take patient to X-Ray as needed.
  • Notify Risk manager and family.
Transfer:
Examples:
  • Faulty bed rail design, contact manufacturer and insurance carrier to report for possible reimbursement of costs related to patient injury.
Avoid:
Permanently remove faulty equipment that contributed to the event.

Accept:
Examples:
  • Patient broke free from bed restraints due to improper application (staff responsible for incident)--educate staff on proper use of restraints for confused or agitated patients.
Reporting:
Examples:
  • Notify physician.
  • Notify environmental services.
  • Notify department or unit manager.
  • Notify risk manager.
Controlling:
Examples:
  • Prompt responses to injured patient, family, and staff.
  • Re- educate staff if something they did contributed to fall.
Monitoring:
Examples:
  • Follow up with injured patient.
  • Conduct ongoing tracking of falls with a goal of reducing their frequency.
  • Ensure ongoing staff education regarding fall prevention protocols