HCA 375 Week 4 Adverse Event Reporting

A375– Continuous Quality Monitoring and Accreditation

Adverse Event Reporting



Read Chapters 5, 6, and 7 in our textbook. After reviewing this week’s required reading, consider the following scenario: You are the lead of the risk management team that has been assigned to evaluate an incident that has occurred. You will be preparing a report for the CEO of the hospital that includes all system failures that contributed to the adverse event as well as utilizing a CQI tool. You will be using the Adverse Event template to complete the three parts to the assignment. Note: If you have responded substantively to each of the content items within the three parts of the assignment, the paper should be between six and seven pages.

Part One: Description of Adverse Event (Complete Part One of the Adverse Event template)

·         Choose an adverse event from the following list:

o    Medication error

o    Patient falls

o    Post-operative hemorrhage

§  Data - Patient Safety Event For XYZ Hospital for 20XX through 20YY

 # of Discharges       

 # of Surgical Cases          

 # of Medication Errors          

 # of Patient Falls          

 # of Post Operative Hemorrhage