Question

Risk management is a key function for most compliance officers. Risk management includes protecting employees from harm as well as ensuring patient safety. For this assignment, you are to analyze current risk management policies that are present in health care environments. Pick one policy from your own employer that you feel could be changed or improved. Discuss the policy and your recommendations to change this policy. Include at least three peer reviewed sources to support your point of view. Examples of Risk Management Policies include employee issues such as smoking policies; mandated overtime practices, dress code policies, sick leave/PTO policies, non-discrimination hiring policies. Risk Management policies also apply to patient care including hand hygiene policies, falls prevention work, wound care prevention; HIPAA privacy issues, admission requirements, patient rights and informed consent.

Answer 1

Risk management professionals' responsibilities to provide health care service. It should include promoting workplace safety, regulating compliance, high-grade patient care, and safe delivery.
Employer time off policy allows a better budget and makes engagement and procedure workforce. Time off policy among employer cause loss of productivity, dissatisfaction, workplace stress, high turnover, high cost.
Paid time-off and paid leave benefit employees, increase trust, and productivity and reduce turnover. It can be considered by offering improving working options, flexible work schedules. successful time off policy provides flexible and easy track time-off policy to make employer engagement, loyalty, and productivity and provide healthy work-life balance.