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Assignment Details
Patient safety is a critical component of effective risk management in healthcare organizations. Poor patient safety practices can cost healthcare organizations a lot of money and increase hospital stays, costs, and loss of revenue.
For this assignment, create a slide presentation on effective patient safety which includes the following:
- Describe the concept of patient safety and what health care organizations can do to improve.
- Select one primary risk to effective patient safety and provide an overview of the issue.
- Discuss how a healthcare organization can mitigate the risk associated with the issue you selected.
The use of the Notes section is required with 100–150 words per section. The use of at least 4 scholarly sources is required. The use of APA style is required.
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