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Typically risk management includes safety practices when providing healthcare in terms of biological, physical, and chemical safety (Balthazar, Andrade, Ferreira de Souza, Machado Cavagna, & Cavalcanti Valente, 2017). In terms of risk management, when it comes to apparent authority, involves the safety of the patient with a clear understanding of responsibility during a moment of liability. Accidents happen, and all care providers are human and bound to make an eventual mistake, risk management is knowing who is responsible and what can be done to prevent the same mistake from happening again. One resource, implemented by a hospital’s risk management team, is the use of consent forms. Consent forms are used to help educate the patient on the potential risks involved in their treatment, and the understanding of their options of choosing care and their care team (Showalter, 2015). Inadequate education provided by a non-hospital employee, should not hold the hospital liable should adverse side effects happen, the liability should be held with the …show more content…
Physicians typically have one of two options when working with a hospital, they can either work as a physician enterprise or as a co-management within the hospital. Under an enterprise, the physician is directly employed under the hospital although the overall practice is a separate legal corporation, independent from the hospital (Payton, 2012). Under a co-management, the hospital agrees to allow the physician to manage their own department within the hospital. This requires a larger commitment from the physician to manage their own administration, quality, and efficiency of their department. While the hospital provides support and medical resources available for the physicians (Payton, 2012). The healthcare administrator must work with each party to decide which management option will work best with the hospital’s resources and will allow the physicians to provide the highest quality care that they are able