Risk Management Issues

Part I

Select 1 current health care or hospital risk management issue. 

Write a 300-word response to the following: 

  • How is the risk management issue that you selected currently being addressed? 
  • What risk management gaps exist in health care or hospital risk management? Based on industry literature, how would you address these gaps? 
  • What strategies would you use to communicate the risk management gaps with leadership and the rest of the team?
  • Include your own experience as well as two citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

 Part II

Refer to pp. 164–242 of Book II, “The Aftermath of the Nebraska Outbreak,” of A Never Event.

Write a 300-word response to the following:

  • Discuss the Nebraska Hospital Medical Liability Act (NHMLA), the Nebraska Excess Liability Fund (NELF), and medical malpractice laws. 
  • Identify how medical malpractice laws protect providers.
  • Discuss how medical malpractice laws impact a patient’s ability to receive compensation when there is proof of medical malpractice and resulting harm.  

 

 

Risk Management Issues

Part I

Select 1 current health care or hospital risk management issue. 

Write a 300-word response to the following: 

  • How is the risk management issue that you selected currently being addressed? 
  • What risk management gaps exist in health care or hospital risk management? Based on industry literature, how would you address these gaps? 
  • What strategies would you use to communicate the risk management gaps with leadership and the rest of the team?
  • Include your own experience as well as two citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

 Part II

Refer to pp. 164–242 of Book II, “The Aftermath of the Nebraska Outbreak,” of A Never Event.

Write a 300-word response to the following:

  • Discuss the Nebraska Hospital Medical Liability Act (NHMLA), the Nebraska Excess Liability Fund (NELF), and medical malpractice laws. 
  • Identify how medical malpractice laws protect providers.
  • Discuss how medical malpractice laws impact a patient’s ability to receive compensation when there is proof of medical malpractice and resulting harm.  

 

 

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