HLT 308V Risk Management and Health
Care Regulations
Topic 4 Assignment: Oakland Ophthalmology Clinic Risk
Management
Interview
Grand Canyon University
22 March, 2020
Description: The purpose of this assignment is to gain real-world insight into how risk
management programs operate within health care organizations.
Select a local health care organization where you can conduct an interview with an employee
who is involved in risk management processes. This organization can be your current employer
or a different health care facility in your community. Acute care, urgent care, large multiprovider
private medical clinics, assisted living facilities, and community/public health clinical facilities
are all ideal options to complete the requirements of this assignment. Select an individual who
can provide sufficient information regarding how their organization manages risk within its
facility to answer the questions below.
In your interview, address the following:
1. Risk management strategies used in the organization's risk control program, along with
specific examples.
2. How the facility's educational risk management program addresses key professional,
legal, and ethical issues, such as prevention of negligence, malpractice litigation, and
vicarious liability.
3. Policies the facility has implemented that address how to manage emergency triage in
highrisk areas of health care service delivery (e.g., narcotics inventories, declared
pregnancy policies, blood-borne disease sector, etc.).
4. Challenges the organization faces in managing and controlling high-risk health care (e.g.,
infectious diseases, nuclear medicine, abortion, class 4 narcotics/opioids, etc.).
5. Strategies the facility utilizes to monitor, evaluate, and maintain compliance within its
risk management program.
After conducting the interview, compose a 7501,000 word summary analysis of the interview
that includes the questions above, in conjunction with the interviewee's responses. In addition,
include the following elements in your response:
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Care Regulations
Topic 4 Assignment: Oakland Ophthalmology Clinic Risk
Management
Interview
Grand Canyon University
22 March, 2020
Description: The purpose of this assignment is to gain real-world insight into how risk
management programs operate within health care organizations.
Select a local health care organization where you can conduct an interview with an employee
who is involved in risk management processes. This organization can be your current employer
or a different health care facility in your community. Acute care, urgent care, large multiprovider
private medical clinics, assisted living facilities, and community/public health clinical facilities
are all ideal options to complete the requirements of this assignment. Select an individual who
can provide sufficient information regarding how their organization manages risk within its
facility to answer the questions below.
In your interview, address the following:
1. Risk management strategies used in the organization's risk control program, along with
specific examples.
2. How the facility's educational risk management program addresses key professional,
legal, and ethical issues, such as prevention of negligence, malpractice litigation, and
vicarious liability.
3. Policies the facility has implemented that address how to manage emergency triage in
highrisk areas of health care service delivery (e.g., narcotics inventories, declared
pregnancy policies, blood-borne disease sector, etc.).
4. Challenges the organization faces in managing and controlling high-risk health care (e.g.,
infectious diseases, nuclear medicine, abortion, class 4 narcotics/opioids, etc.).
5. Strategies the facility utilizes to monitor, evaluate, and maintain compliance within its
risk management program.
After conducting the interview, compose a 7501,000 word summary analysis of the interview
that includes the questions above, in conjunction with the interviewee's responses. In addition,
include the following elements in your response:
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