Question

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), and The Joint Commission (TJC) require that health care organizations maintain risk management programs to address infection control. Detail three measures that your health care organization (or any health care organization) needs to address in the delivery of safe health care services. (Example: Placing hand washing devices at all of the public entrances of the health care facility). Support your response with a minimum of two peer-reviewed references.

Answer 1

The riskmanangement strategies are very important in every health care organization,where a a health risk mananger or a professional in the particular area continually assess and minimizes various risks to staff,patients and the public in the health care orgaizations.A good health care risk management strategy plan can reduce the patient health risks as well as financially and liability risks.The main goal of the risk management are:

*Risk identification

*Risk assessment

*Risk planning

In every health care organization including our health care organization main aim is to delivery of health care services by following the safe infection control principles to prevent the risk for every one in the organization are:

*Standard Precautions

*Hand Hygeine

*Personal protective equipment

*Needle stick and sharps inury prevention

*Proper cleaning and dis-infection

*Following Cough Etiquette

*Proper waste disposal and handling

*Safe injection practices

In our health care organization we are following a standard risk manangement strategies to address infection control such as :

*All the health care staff in the organization has to sterilize the hands with chlorhexidine and wear gown and mask to reduce the induction of infection while visiting or consulting the immunocompromised patients.

*Proper waste disposal manangement according to the color code such as we use to follow updared color coding for Bio-medical waste management such as :

a.Human anatomical waste,Animal waste and animal tissues,Microbiology and Biotechnology waste and solid waste such as items contaminated with blood and body fluids) :Yellow colored non-chlorinated plastic bag - disposed by incineration or plasma pyrolysis or deep burial

b.Animal waste and animal tissues,Microbiology waste and solid waste (such as items contaminated with blood and body fluids) :Red colored dis-infected container/Plastic bag - Autoclaving,Micro waving/Chemical treatment

c.Waste sharps (neeedles,syringes,scalpels,blades,glass etc (This includes bothused and unused sharps) ,Solid waste items such as items contaminated with blood and body fluids:.Blue or white translucent plastic bag/puncture proof container - Autoclaving/Microwaving/chemical treatment and destruction/shredding.

d.Discarded medicines and cytotoxic drugs,incineration ash,chemical waste :Blackplastic bag -Disposal in secured land fill

*Following proper hand hygeine or use of chlorhexidine hand rub in case of emergency while before and after contacting with each individual patients.