Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

The Society of Critical Care Medicine provides an educational presentation on identifying and addressing the signs of sepsis.

Link to the CDC Surviving Sepsis page that contains patient and clinician resources on dealing with sepsis.

This resource describes in detail four key points to addressing sepsis core measure processess for healthcare facilities and patients.

This resource discusses metrics in the prevention of surgical site infections.

The Institute of Healthcare focuses on surgical improvement projects by implementing changes to reduce the occurrence of SSIs. This project includes fundamental elements and recommended prevention strategies.

The CDC has developed a library of guidelines for necessary infection and prevention and control. These guidelines consist of disinfection, sterilization, hand hygiene and isolation precautions of the healthcare facilities environment.

Reducing the risk of encountering an active shooter situation is important to any business, especially healthcare. These resources provide tools on how to plan what to do in the event of an active shooter/violent situation.

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.