Risk Management
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION    3
What is Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)?    3
How risk management can be used to improve processes in healthcare organisations?    4
Impact has on preventing sentinel events    5
Joint commission’s required in the case    6
CONCLUSION    7
REFERENCES    8
INTRODUCTION
In order to overcome the hazardous situation within the workplace it is required by the individual to focuses on risk management process and activities. With the help of risk management it reduces the risk associated with uncertain activities and practices within the organisation (Ofek et al. 2016). The present repot focuses on understanding the concept related with FMEA that is Failure Mode and Effects Analysis within the giant healthcare setting. Along with this, it will also focuses on reviewing the impact of FMEA in preventing sentinel events in the hospital.
What is Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)?
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is among the structured reliability improvement approach that plays significant role in lowering the possibility of failure in the healthcare setting. In order to deliver quality services and care to patient it is required by management to conduct FMEA risk management so that it may easily overcome the level of failure and effect mode.
The key steps in the process of FMEA are as follows-
Step 1- identify potential failure and effects
The first step in the FMEA risk management is to determine the failure action or activity along with their effects on the other individual. For instance, improper functioning of ECG machine that effect routine examination of the heart condition.
Step 2- Determine severity
Another step in the risk management procedure includes determining severity of the failure within the healthcare setting and ranks them on the scale of 1 to 10.
Step 3- Guage likelihood of occu
ence
After examining the failure as well as their cause’s management of healthcare would review the occu
ence of failure in the setting. Therefore, it is stated that all the potential causes must be identified and documented so that it may not occur in the future perspective (How to conduct failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), 2016).
Step 4- Failure detection
After ensuring the remedial actions and activities it needs to be tested for measuring the level of efficiency and efficacy so that it may not lead to failure of the actions.
Step 5- Risk Priority Number
The last step ensures risk priority number that results in influencing the choice of activities or actions against the failure activity.
How risk management can be used to improve processes in healthcare organisations?
Through reviewing the structural process it has been assessed that FMEA can be used to improve patient safety within the healthcare organsiation. FMEA basically involves close examination of the high risk factor that clearly requires the improvement as it will reduce the chance of unintended adverse event from the setting. While imparting...