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Re: Risk Management |
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Liz |
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Sep 5, 05 - 6:14 PM |
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Liz |
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We don't have Risk Manager at the facility level, & none of the facilities where I have worked have.
There has always been a Risk Manager at the corporate or regional level to call & ask questions of, but in general most of the things fell back on the Administrator & the DON.
In my area, most of the facilities have the DON or the Administartor file the necessary reports with the state.
Incident reports & investigations can be done by any member of staff that has the knowledge & education & license (if required) to conduct the enquiry & adequately establish proper resolutions.
Myself, since I'm the one state is going to quiz in the event they do an on-site investigation, I wasnt to know everything! I want to have been the one asking the questions & doing the investigation & filing the report with all of the Is dotted & Ts crossed.
If your company does require a Risk Manager to do this type of thing, then I would be working directly with them in every matter involving Resident Care.
If your company doesn't actually require the position be filled, then perhaps you could get by without or add a 2nd ADON (or part-time ADON) to help share the responsibilities.
I would consider it to be a position that required a licensed clinician, probly RN but I know of many of LPNs that know more then do RNs.
They would have be well versed on the regulations (both state specific & federal) & a strong people person, not to mention very "politically tactful". |
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