Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

The NQF provides information on reporting events that are serious, preventable and harmful to patients, which can assist healthcare organizations in the patient safety performance improvement process.

Medication reconciliation can affect patient safety due to the complexity of the process. This tool provides multiple resources for improving your organization's medication reconciliation process.

Joint Commission provides national patient safety goals each year that are based on emerging patient safety issues that can affect patients in the following areas: ambulatory care, behavioral health, criticial access hospitals, home care, acute care hospitals, laboratories and office-based surgery centers.

The AHRQ provides a tool to evaluate and assess the understanding of patient educational materials.

IHI provides assessment tools for patient safety process improvement measures.

The VA Center for Patient Safety provides an assessment tool to assist healthcare organizations in conducting an objective assessment of their patient safety processes and program.

Acitve shooter events are increasing more and more across the U.S. and the experts have developed tools to help the lay person identify a potential active shooter as a risk reduction strategy.

Healthcare organizations should take the possiblity of an active shooter event occuring in their facility very seriously. These resources provide key tactics on managing violent and disruptive behavior as a risk reduction process.