Factors Related to Risk Management Participation of Personnel in Priest Hospital

Abstract

objectives: The objectives of this survey research were to study 1) level of participation of personnel in quality improvement of risk management in Priest Hospital 2) personal factors and empowerment of personnel 3) relationships between personal factors, empowerment and participation of personnel in quality improvement of risk management and 4) problems and recommendations towards the provision of personnel participation in quality improvement of risk management in Priest Hospital.

Methods: The study population was 261 personnel involving in risk management such as doctors, nurses, and other allied health science personnel. A sample group of 140 personnel was selected by stratified random sampling method. Data were collected by a questionnaire, with the reliability values of between 0.928-0.944. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Chi-square test and Pearson correlation coefficients.

Results:  The finding showed that: 1) A level of participation in risk management of personnel was high.   2) Most of participants were female, average age was 32.5 years old, having 10.05 years of average working experience. Regarding personal factors, it was found that most participants had bachelor degree and graduated in nursing, were not on a risk management committee, have been training on risk management for once in the past year, average experience on risk management was 5.01 years. Overall empowerment of personnel were at the high level. 3) Being the risk management committee or manager, and overall and each aspect of personnel’s empowerment showed significantly related to the participation in risk management at 0.05 level, while no relationship was found from other personal variables. 4) Important problems and obstacles of participation in quality improvement of risk management were lack of regular evaluation, or coordinator for the feedbacks from the continuing evaluation

Conclusions: The involvement of personnel in risk management. It is necessary to have direct personnel in charge of coordinating and coordinating the monitoring to ensure that the risk management is better. 

Keywords:   Risk management, Participation, Personnel, Priest Hospital