Adverse Event Reporting Read Chapters 5, 6, and 7 in our textbook. After reviewing this week’s required reading, consider the following scenario: You are the lead of the risk management team that has been assigned to evaluate an incident that has occurred. You will be preparing a report for the CEO of the hospital that includes all system failures that contributed to the adverse event as well as utilizing a CQI tool (pareto, fishbone, flowchart). You will be using the document to complete the three parts to the assignment. Note: If you have responded substantively to each of the content items within the three parts of the assignment, the paper should be between six and seven pages.
Part One: Description of Adverse Event (Complete Part One of the
- Choose an adverse event from the following list:
- Medication error
- Patient falls
- Post-operative hemorrhage
- The number of Discharges indicates the total number of patients who have been admitted and discharged in the hospital
- Using the data listed below for your selected adverse event only, analyze and describe what the data is telling you. Make sure to include the graph in your template document.
- Data – Patient Safety Event for XYZ Hospital for the year 20XX through 20YY
# of Patient Falls |
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