Risk Management in Nursing
Contact Hours: 3
What's included?
Course Overview
This course explores the complex environment of risk management in nursing. In healthcare, risk management emerges as a fundamental discipline aimed at safeguarding patient safety and ensuring the operational efficiency of healthcare organizations. Risk management in nursing involves identifying, assessing, and implementing strategies to minimize potential risks to patient safety and healthcare quality, ensuring a safer clinical environment.
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Overview of Risk Management
- The Five Basic Techniques for Handling Risk
- The Value of Risk Management in Nursing
- The Eight Domains of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
- Why Is Risk Management Important to Clinical Nursing Practice?
- Key Components of Performing Risk Management in Nursing
- The Evolution of Risk Management in Healthcare
- The Role of the Risk Manager
- Evaluating Organizational Risk
- Creating a Healthcare Risk Management Plan
- Patient-Specific Risk Management Strategies
- How Incident Reporting Improves Risk Management
- Sentinel Events
- Patient Handoff
- Medication Errors
- Conclusion
Course Outcomes
After completing this course, the learner will rate a 4 out of 5 on the Likert Scale for their ability to:
- Define risk management in the context of healthcare, explaining its importance and necessity for ensuring patient safety, preserving organizational reputation, achieving accreditation, and securing reimbursements.
- Identify, assess, and evaluate risks within healthcare environments.
- Implement effective risk management plans that include comprehensive strategies for risk identification, assessment, mitigation, reporting, and monitoring.
- Understand the application of risk management principles in clinical nursing practice.
- Foster an environment that encourages the reporting of near misses and adverse events, and how to respond to sentinel events to prevent recurrence.
Accreditations and Approvals
- American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) (P0614)
- California Board of Registered Nursing (CEP 17418)
- Kentucky Board of Nursing (7-0090)
- Louisiana State Board of Nursing (58)
- Florida Board of Nursing (50-23983)
- Delaware Board of Nursing (DE-24-010127)
- Alabama Board of Nursing (#ABNP1577)
- Iowa Board of Nursing (#393)
- Kansas Board of Nursing (LT0340-0325)
Approved by the Board of Nursing in every state, you can complete your RN, LVN, and APRN CEUs with confidence.
Accreditation Statement
Nursing CE Central LLC is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
It will take the average learner 180 minutes to complete and awards 3 contact hours of continuing education.
Written For
- Registered Nurses (RN)
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN)
- Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN/LVN)
Requirements for Completion
- Enrollment in the course by the learner
- Read and learn all course materials
- Complete the course evaluation
- Attest and testify learning of the course materials
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
Nursing CE Central nor any of the authors, planners, content experts, or any contributors have any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
