Week 4 – Organizational Risk Management Interview

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Interview a health care provider on how an organization can prevent the spread of infectious disease within the facility. Include the following:

1. Identification of the challenges the organization faces in controlling infectious diseases.
2. Risk management strategies used in the organization’s infection control program, along with specific examples.
3. Monitoring and maintaining the risk management program.
4. Based on the interview, provide your impression of the organization’s risk management program. Support your rationale by citing references.

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Organizational Risk Management

Introduction

Risk management is an ongoing process that requires ongoing learning by everyone involved. The project planning process gives us an opportunity to review what we are currently doing and identify new risks and opportunities. Risks or challenges identified in reviews should be documented and prioritized, as they can be great sources of learning. To continue to build your knowledge and skills as a leader, you need to find ways to lift your head out of the weeds and see what’s on the horizon

Creating a framework for engaging in risk management and assessing our needs is the first step.

Before you start gathering data and developing your plan, it’s important to define the problem. What are we trying to solve? What are our needs?

The next step is setting goals. This sounds like an obvious step, but it’s often overlooked by people who aren’t yet familiar with organizational risk management or its benefits. A goal can be anything from “I want my organization to be more healthy” or “I want us all to work together more effectively.” Your personal goals will likely be different from those of other people within your organization—and that’s okay! But whatever they may be, make sure they’re ambitious enough so that you feel motivated but realistic enough so that others don’t feel frustrated by their lack of progress toward these same goals (or worse yet: never making them at all).

Small things can have a big impact on your day-to-day work.

There is a saying that “small things can have a big impact on your day-to-day work.” It’s true, and it’s important to recognize that small things can be the difference between success and failure.

• Have a process for when things go wrong. If you don’t have an established plan for handling these situations, you may find yourself scrambling and doing what you think works best at the moment—which isn’t always effective! You need to know how to respond in every situation so that next time around, if something similar happens again, there’s no question about what steps need to be taken immediately.

• Have a process for when things go right as well. Once again: knowing what steps should go into place when something goes right helps ensure these successes continue into future projects or initiatives as well (and prevents them from becoming wasted time).

The project planning process gives us an opportunity to review what we are currently doing and identify new risks and opportunities.

The project planning process gives us an opportunity to review what we are currently doing and identify new risks and opportunities. Planning is a structured way of thinking about the future, which helps us make decisions about what to do, when to do it and how to do it.

Planning is not just about deciding on tasks or activities; rather, it involves evaluating all aspects of your business or organization (including people) so that you can determine if there are any risks involved in each activity.

Risks or challenges identified in reviews should be documented and prioritized, as they can be great sources of learning.

When you’re faced with a challenge, it’s important to document the risks involved. This will help you prioritize them and ensure that they don’t get lost in the shuffle. When possible, try to identify how these challenges could be mitigated or avoided in the future.

For instance: If you have a new hire who doesn’t understand their role yet and is making mistakes on the job, this could become an issue if they keep repeating them over and over again. In this case, it might be better not just for your organization but also for yourself as well (and possibly even some other employees) if someone else took care of those issues instead of letting them fester longer than necessary–or worse yet take legal action against your company!

To continue to build your knowledge and skills as a leader, you need to find ways to lift your head out of the weeds and see what’s on the horizon.

You need to find ways to lift your head out of the weeds, and see what’s on the horizon.

Review your annual goals and priorities. As you review your current risk management process, look for opportunities to improve it in any way possible—the more effective it is at managing risk, the less likely you are to incur financial losses due to an unexpected event or circumstance.

Look for new risks that may be emerging from within or outside of your organization’s operations (for example: cyberattacks). Once identified, consider how these types of threats could affect both internal processes as well as external perceptions about who we are as an organization if they were allowed to grow unchecked; this will help guide future planning efforts regarding how best prevent problems before they occur.

Risk management is an ongoing process that requires ongoing learning by everyone involved.

Risk management is an ongoing process that requires ongoing learning by everyone involved. It’s not something that can be done by one person alone, but rather requires a team effort and the use of knowledge of the organization and its culture.

Risk managers need to have a good understanding of what constitutes a risk, as well as how these risks might manifest themselves in terms of financial impact or loss of lives or property.

Conclusion

“Risk management is a continual process that requires ongoing learning by everyone involved.”