Risk Management in Nursing Practicum

Abstract

Nursing education management is part of practice following hospital’s standard and health services in clinical teaching and learning management that requires adequate supervision at each level of learners and trainees to ensure the safety while taking care of patients and gain a similar learning experience as well as comply with an effective and coordinated risk and safety management system at all levels in order manage risks and create security for clients, staff, and visitors.

It happens that students have to practice nursing care while still having insufficient knowledge, skills, and experiences to take care of patients with quality so that those who involve in education management are required to manage risks in the practical training by 1) understanding the terminology related to operational risk management; 2) setting risk program covering work system related to practicum and analyzing to detect risk in each program, as well as setting by risk prevention and control measures, 3) prioritizing risk severity for assessment of risk and damage, 4) setting steps of risk management and incidence report as well as a model of incidence report and assumption of incidence report for learning and sharing learnt lesson leading to change in work system. This guideline is a method for helping nursing practicum to achieve quality, safety, and effective learning objectives.