Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations, Student Edition
Chapter One
DEVELOPMENT OF A RISK
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
JANE J. McCAFFREY, SHEILA HAGG-RICKERT
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
* To be able to describe the key elements necessary to have a successful risk
management program
* To be able to discuss three barriers for successful risk management program
development and provide at least one strategy for overcoming each
* To be able to discuss one nonclinical area of related risk for a health care
organization
* To be able to identify the various organizational structures that can be successful
in implementing a risk management program
Organizations and individuals have always sought ways to identify and reduce the
risks that threatened their existence. In primitive agrarian societies, where families and
villages produced barely enough to meet their most basic needs, the loss of a year's
harvest, whether to forces of nature or to the plunder of warring tribes, surely spelled
disaster. The attempts of ... read full excerpt from Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations ebook
