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Risk Assessment Categories
Risk categories together with the various factors under each should assist nursing staff and other practitioners in their assessment and management of risk within their daily clinical practice. However, they should be used as a helpful aide-mémoire or as a tool to support professional judgement based on practical experience. This section is designed to help […]
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Risk assessment and risk management
For the purposes of a textbook, or training event, the concepts of risk assessment and risk management can be analysed separately. However, in reality they are closely inter-linked – risk cannot be effectively managed until it has been clearly identified and defined; and when a risk is identified we instantly respond with considerations of how […]
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