Healthcare Administrators must be prepared with competency skills to better match the healthcare role and environment that they may take-on (Stefl, November/December 2008). In order to be successful and effective as a Healthcare Administrator fulfilling the role in Risk Management, there are challenges that I must address to be better prepared, such as with competency skills. I feel with my communication and relationship management, competency skills, I speak very articulately and concisely, but I need to address the issue of interacting with others more in order to better address medical safety issues relating to Risk Management (Stefl, November/December 2008). By addressing this competency skills, I would be much more effective in maintaining Risk Management safety by eliminating medical errors among …show more content…
Also, with business skills and knowledge competency skills challenges, I have educational knowledge of the role Risk Management plays, but I lack the on-hands experience to apply business principles (Stefl, November/December 2008). By joining the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management organization to exchange ideas and views by interacting with members and enhancing my knowledge and skills by taking courses, attending webinars and conferences, I will fulfill the challenges needed for Risk Management. With knowledge of healthcare environment competency skills, I have a clear understanding of the healthcare systems, external environment in terms of mission, and vision with its commitment to the community it serves, but must gain additional knowledge of its internal environment functions (Stefl, November/December 2008). By volunteering at a healthcare organization, I can gain internal knowledge of how the organization function and operate in various
It is imperative that Health Care Professionals learn to manage risk. There are many factors to think about including environment, assessment, identification and prioritising when managing risk. Being able to strategically implement preventative measures will help in managing risk. Risk management works hand in hand with all enablers set out by chapelhow.
Also, a master’s degree in a related field is required. A master’s degree in nursing (MRN) is preferable. (University Alliance, 2014). On the experience level, risk management director position requires at least five years experience in clinical or four years experience in quality management. According to Firedman and Kovner, in order to become a risk management director a certified licensure is a must. Licensure may vary by state and whoever wants to be involved in risk management they should be aware of the licensure regulations (2013). Pixler stated in his article Health Care Team examples of professional organizations that provide certification. These organizations are; Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM), Associate in Risk Management (ARM), Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), and America Hospitals Association (AHA)
The concept of risk management is relatively new, as hospitals look to prevent hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), falls, injuries, and other forms of preventable harm, rather than reacting once harm has already taken place. Before this concept became a best practice, most health organizations relied on malpractice and liability insurance to protect against losses and mitigate the effects of accidents and poor patient outcomes (Colorado State University-Global Campus, 2014). Today, risk management is an integral facet of a healthcare facility’s business practice in preventing risks, ensuring regulatory compliance, minimizing financial damage, and preserving its reputation in the community. Although most large
Patient safety is the basis of quality health care in the hospital. Works applied to patient safety and practices that have not prevented hazard have focused on negative outcomes of care, such as mortality and morbidity. Healthcare employees are important to the surveillance and coordination that will reduce such adverse effects.
Medical office managers in today’s healthcare environment are confronted with many challenges in an office. In a work place Medical office managers should be able to communicate with staff, patients, and to the public in a professional manner. Most managers believe that the way they communicate with people is the best way to communicate with patients. There are different ways to communicate with patients, physicians, and other professionals in the workplace. When it comes to handling a problem with a person the manager needs to speak to the person in a professional way in order for them to have control of the situation when it comes to a conflict. Not all people can be handled the same way and spoken to in the same way, because everyone has different solutions in resolving a conflict. A manager may have to resolve a conflict between co-workers in the office and may have to handle the situation differently between each person. Improving performance in a medical office as a medical office manager they will need to improve team work on their team. A medical office manager needs good communication skills in order to communicate with patients, physicians and other healthcare professionals run the office smoothly.
The main objective of healthcare professionals is to provide the best quality of patient care and the highest level of patient safety. To achieve that objective, there are many organizations that help to improve the quality of care. One of the best examples is the Joint Commission. Unfortunately, the healthcare system is not free from total risks. In healthcare activities, there are possible errors, mistakes, near miss and adverse events. All of those negative events are unfortunately preventable. But, it is clear that errors caused in healthcare thousands of deaths in the United States.
A culture of safety requires the commitment of leadership to positively impact outcomes. Recent emphasis on the new CMS guidelines and third party reimbursement initiatives associated with patient outcomes, has grabbed the attention of leadership at all healthcare organizations. Additionally, our system wide organization’s employee culture of safety survey has shown that communication and teamwork are areas were improvements are needed. Years of research on communication and teamwork in highly reliable organizations support a correlation with safety. (XX) One of the most important and highly touted Joint Commission, National Patient Safety Goals is to improve communication across the healthcare continuum. (JC .com) Additionally, the organization’s patient occurrences were reviewed through root cause analysis and the source is often linked to a failure to effectively communicate and role confusion. Well defined roles within the team model can help improve communication, including mitigating variables such as distractions, individual emphasis on the wrong information, and a breakdown in communication. (XXX) Implementation of a formal teamwork program is one way to systematically approach risk reduction within an organization. (Botwinick, L., Bisognano, M., & Harden, C., 2006) (Leonard, M., Frankel, A., Federico, F., Frush, K., & Haraden, C., 2013)
There are an abundance of character traits and skills that Healthcare Administrators utilize throughout their career. Comprehension and reasoning are the two most prevalent. You need the ability to understand through written and spoken sentences. Since communicating with others is the majority of a day in the life of an administrator, it is
According to McConell (2012), the difference in a leader and a follower determines the success of a person regarding leadership. This chapter helps explain the content of qualities and proficiency for healthcare managers to be effective. Once again, effective management skills or certain qualifications enhance a healthcare organization environment. Healthcare managers and supervisors must have the capacity to handle challenges while the organization objectives and regulations may change over a period of time. Effective healthcare management governs the success of a healthcare organization. There are many different skill sets and leadership styles to be effective as a manager. People are interested in knowing what strategies are effective in healthcare management.
It is right of a patient to be safe at health care organization. Patient comes to the hospital for the treatment not to get another disease. Patient safety is the most important issue for health care organizations. Patient safety events cost of thousands of deaths and millions of dollars an-nually. Even though the awareness of patient safety is spreading worldwide but still we have to accomplish many things to achieve safe environment for patients in the hospitals. Proper admin-istrative changes are required to keep health care organization safe. We need organizational changes, effective leadership, strong health care policies and effective health care laws to make patients safer.
Healthcare administration provides leadership and managemnt to health care systems, hospitals, and private or public health systems. There are requirements for most professions in the health industry but with the proper education and certification, most entry-level careers are attainable. Healthcare administrators are leaders so one must be able to handle the responsibility of the job. There are characteristics that can be associated with being a health care administrator. I have learned over the course of the past few weeks that this the career path that I would like to follow and have set a few goals to help promote my career growth. My research has helped me learn many aspects of this profession and what it takes
Moreover, I will endeavor to promote safe and better working environment by identification of obstacles and challenges. I will achieve this by identifying these challenges by foreseeing and developing a contingency plan. This is essential as it aids in improving the working environment for all patients and healthcare
This paper is an over view of my profession and future Degree in my Bachelors of Science in Health Care Administration. I would like to use my degree to work in Employment services management, and I would like to work in the hospital as well. To learn about my future career in Health Care Administration I researched different aspects of my degree. Most of the information I found was very informative. I learned about how my personality fits with my career as well I also went to the Kaplan University Career Services. I researched How much is my future profession growing, how much money is the median for the state I live in and the hospital I plan to work in. I got a good over view of what my life should be looking like in five years. Most of my research I found was on this web site http://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/medical-and-health-services-managers.htm
My overall vision is to develop and promote information technology solutions to better improve health outcomes, patient safety, and prevention of medical errors in underserved countries. In closing, Health informatics and Health Information Management is an exciting program that is designed to provide me with a suite of resources to help me develop essential leadership, teamwork, and healthcare management skills that will help me to become successful leader in healthcare
Health care provides multiple factors to determine the quality and ensure the safety to examine the change practices which increase challenges for patients. The patient actively engages the development of evidences based on critical knowledge and core health care system strength. To achieve the goal of health care to safe patient by providing quality services throughout their leadership role. Quality management provides a specific framework to considered the successful implementation for the risk management and improve the programs where participation need to share experiences. The governing body demonstrates that commitment process of all stakeholders for sufficient management resources for effective mitigation. Quality of system increase patients and will helpful for people and employees to achiev...