Clinical Risk Management in Healthcare Organization as Perceived by Staff Nurses | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 76, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 1281-1298 PDF (1.16 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.193389 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Nancy Sabry EL Leithy* ; Heba Mohamed Al Anwer Ashour | ||
| Lecturers , Nursing Administration ,Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Clinical risk management (CRM) is the cornerstone of the system approach to achieve patient safety, human error management in health care, and reduction of the incidence and impact of preventable adverse events. It is related to risk management of clinical care in healthcare setting. Research objectives: The main purpose of this study is to assess the perception of staff nurses of the clinical risk management in private and governmental hospital. Subjects and Methods: A descriptive research design was used in carrying out this study. It was conducted at two hospitals: private and governmental hospital. Subjects of the study included 300 nurses. The data collection forms consisted of two tools namely, clinical risk management questionnaire and risk program occurrence checklist. Results: The overall study subject had perceived moderate level of CRM (40.54 ± 16.89). However, the studied nurses in the private hospitals had perceived higher level of clinical risk management than nurses in governmental hospital (53.23 ± 15.43, 27.85 ± 3.17) respectively. Conclusion: This study concluded that all the studied staff nurses perceived moderate level of CRM. However, there was a significant difference according to hospital ownership, as the governmental hospital perceived lower level of CRM and risk management program than those in private hospital. Recommendation: Developing training programs for nurses to improve their knowledge and skills of CRM | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Clinical risk; clinical risk management; nurses; risk programs; perception; healthcare organization | ||
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