The risk management methods commonly used in nursing today are risk identification, risk assessment, risk control, and risk monitoring.
The healthcare service industry is a highly technical and risky industry. Nursing care is an important part of medical activities, as long as there are nursing service activities, there must be nursing risk.
Risk: refers to the possible dangers and hazards, including economic risk, political risk, legal risk, personal risk and so on.
Nursing risk: is to engage in medical care service activities may occur in the danger and harm, subject to its subjective, objective, the influence of factors, there are sudden and unpredictable.
Nursing risk management
Nursing risk management is the management process of identifying, evaluating, and adopting the correct decisions to minimize the potential risks of harm that may be incurred by the patient, caregiver, or visitor. Nursing risk is present in all aspects of care, disposition, and cooperation in resuscitation.
Therefore, the nursing risk management system should be continuously improved, a sound nursing risk disposal plan should be established, relevant knowledge training should be strengthened, nurses' awareness of risk prevention should be reinforced, and their ability to identify and deal with risks should be improved. This chapter summarizes the prevention and emergency treatment of the more common clinical nursing risks, such as drug anaphylactic shock, transfusion reaction transfusion reaction, medication error, catheter dislodgement, falls, pressure sores, burns, choking, patient suicide, patient wandering, needlestick injuries and so on.