FEMA: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Not what you're looking for?
What is Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)?
In the context of risk management, how can it be used to improve processes in healthcare organizations?
What impact can it have on preventing sentinel events?
What are JCAHO's requirements in this case?
What should be said to people who believe FMEA was not designed to be used in healthcare and to "force" it to work with a healthcare based risk management program will result in faulty analysis and actually increase risks?
Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary
The expert examines the failure modes and effects analysis
Solution Preview
What is FMEA?
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) - a method of evaluating a process to identify how and why it can potentially fail. It also assesses the consequences of specific failures in order to determine the parts of the process that are most in need of change. This method is effective because it doesn't entail waiting for a failure to occur to observe the adverse effects. Instead, it attempts to catch and prevent potential problems from occurring in the first place by correcting the processes where necessary.
In healthcare centers, a FMEA team consisting of employees from various departments is developed. The team members should be knowledgeable of the processes within the organization.
There are two main types of FMEA:
1) Process- focuses on how processes that make the product may wind up failing.
2) Design- how product design can potentially fail
There are many steps to the FMEA ...
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Test your health planning and program evaluation knowledge
Health planning and program evaluation is an important aspect of the Health Sciences' field. Organizations and communities must understand the needs of their audiences, and a way to obtain this datum is through proper design and assessment. This quiz will test your ability to understand the importance of planning and evaluation in the health sector.
What everyone should know about MRSA
This quiz focuses on what everyone should know about community MRSA. Community MSRA is an infection in healthy people.
Managed Care Organizations
This quiz will test the basics of managed care organizations. It is important to know how our health care delivery system operates through managed care.
CPR (Red Cross Standards)
Are you up to date on your CPR skills? Find out if you know what to do in an emergency with this quiz.
Tumor Markers
This quiz help you memorize common tumor markers used to detect and diagnose some types of cancer.