Background: Clinical risk management (CRM) is the cornerstone of the system
approach to achieve patient safety, human error management in health care, and reduction of
the incidence and impact of preventable adverse events. It is related to risk management of
clinical care in healthcare setting. Research objectives: The main purpose of this study is to
assess the perception of staff nurses of the clinical risk management in private and
governmental hospital. Subjects and Methods: A descriptive research design was used in
carrying out this study. It was conducted at two hospitals: private and governmental hospital.
Subjects of the study included 300 nurses. The data collection forms consisted of two tools
namely, clinical risk management questionnaire and risk program occurrence checklist.
Results: The overall study subject had perceived moderate level of CRM (40.54 ± 16.89).
However, the studied nurses in the private hospitals had perceived higher level of clinical
risk management than nurses in governmental hospital (53.23 ± 15.43, 27.85 ± 3.17)
respectively. Conclusion: This study concluded that all the studied staff nurses perceived
moderate level of CRM. However, there was a significant difference according to hospital
ownership, as the governmental hospital perceived lower level of CRM and risk management
program than those in private hospital. Recommendation: Developing training programs for
nurses to improve their knowledge and skills of CRM