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Essay Instructions: "Risk Analysis in Capital Budgeting" - Book being used is Corporate Finance, Ehrhardt and brigham, 4th ed., Chapter 11, p435

Essay Instructions: Risk Management Assessment Summary


Leaders in a health care organization have identified risk management as an opportunity for improvement for the upcoming year. The organization has hired you as a consultant to help assess the organization?s current status and define the future plan for addressing risks.


? Select an organization type in the health care industry as the basis for this assignment. The organization may be your employer or a health care organization of particular interest to you. Types of health care organizations include, but are not limited to, the following:


o Hospital, nursing facility, physician office, emergency medical services, managed care organization, home health care, community health department or provider, pharmacy, laboratory, drug manufacturer, medical device manufacturer, durable medical equipment supplier, and electronic medical records software suppliers

? Research the key concepts of risk management in health care and the factors that influence risk management for your chosen type of organization.
? Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you complete the following:
o Describe the purpose of risk management in health care organizations in general and in your chosen organization in particular.

o Explain key steps this organization may take to identify and manage their risks.

o Identify three typical or actual risks in your chosen organization. Describe how each risk might negatively affect your organization and its stakeholders.

o Summarize the types of education, training, or policies that would help this type of organization mitigate these risks.


? Include at least four sources, two from the University Library and two from either the course textbooks or this week?s Electronic Reserve Readings. Prepare a reference list of all resources and websites used in your research.

Essay Instructions: Risk management paper


Prepare a 1,250- to 1,750-word paper on a current risk management issue at your facility(patient falls)
? Include the steps that have been set in place or discussed to address the issue.

? Discuss how your agency determined a path to remedy the problem.

? Search the literature and provide three sources that identify valid methods adopted by other facilities to address the same problem.

? Compare your results to the process being developed at your agency.

Essay Instructions: Risk Management Paper:
Submit a 1,500?1,750-word paper in APA format on a current risk management issue at your facility (UCLA). Include the steps have been set in place or discussed to address the issue. Discuss how your agency determined a path to remedy the problem. Search the literature (at least 2-3 sources) that identifies valid methods adopted buy other facilities to address the same problem. Compare your results to the process being developed at your agency.

I would like to discuss the risk management of 2004 JCAHO National Patient Safety Goal #2: Improve the effectiveness of communicaiton among caregivers. UCLA use the logo: Two times every time to ensure patient identity prior to any procedures or surgery. I'll also fax you copy of the flyer from UCLA.
UCLA risk management websit: http://risk.mednet.ucla.edu
and http://risk.mednet.ucla.edu/communicatioin.htm.

Instructor is big on citation and quote.

There are faxes for this order.