Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Risk management services designed specifically to address the safety needs of schools, school nursing programs including school based health clinics and special education programs to help you identify risk, understand best practices and implement cost effective strategies to mitigate risk.

The Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a proactive risk tool to help predict which steps in a process have the highest likelihood of
leading to an adverse event. This tool allows a team to intervene and make changes to a process before something negative happens to a patient, visitor or staff member. This example is simply a starting point — designed to be customized to your individual organization.

The Joint Commission's recent Sentinel Event Alert discusses the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities causing mortality and morbidity in pregnant and postpartum patients.

The Joint Commission's Quick Safety Newsletter: Issue 67, discusses how mental health conditions are the leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths.

AWHONN has adapted the SBAR tool to promote respectful and inclusive patient communication and care.

AWHONN has adapted the SBAR Tool to promote respectful and inclusive patient communication and care.

Link: https://www.awhonn.org/awhonn-sbars/

It is important to have standardized tools and processes in place for credentialing. These resources provide tools your organization can utilize for the healthcare provider credentialing process.

Louisiana requires consent for a physician to prescribe medical marijuana. This formal process involves the physician explaining information regarding cannabis. The following serves as a guide for outlining information on medical marijuana related to the diagnosis being treated.

It is important to incorporate certain characteristics into your organization which are associated with improved outcomes in other industries where safety is paramount. This section is organized into the five key characteristics of highly reliable organizations and contains tools and other resources to help you strive toward incorporating these characteristics into your organization’s culture.

Focusing on the processes surrounding medication administration and identifying potential risks can reduce the risk of medication errors. These resources provide tips on how to reduce the risks.

Highly reliable organizations tend to display certain characteristics in their processes and systems that make them exceptionally successful in meeting goals and avoiding errors. This section provides more information on the key traits that these organizations share and how to set off on your organization's own jouney toward high reliability.

It is important to provide safe medication practices in order to avoid mistakes and serious medication errors. The following resources provide tips for healthcare providers, patients and pharmacists.