Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

The article discusses surgical fire prevention and measures to mitigate risks.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends these best practices to reduce the risk of fires occurring during surgical procedures.

A checklist to help the risk manager or safety director identify hazards that lead to slips, trips, and falls. The items in the checklist are designed around common causes of visitor falls within and outside of an organization. Use this checklist as a routine rounding tool.

Sample outcome measures that can be used to measure the success of your SPHM program. This document contains both examples of short and long term measures that can be put in place. Each sample measure includes what it is expected to evaluate and the numerator and denominator that should be collected to calculate the compliance.

LMGMA provides resources for medical practices and their leadership in Louisiana including educational events, networking opportunities and problem solving solutions.

LSNA provides resources for Registered Nurses consisting of information, events, professional development and health policy.

Maintaing compliance in credentialing is a very important function for healthcare organizations and providers. The process needs to be hardwired to ensure that all regulatory requirements are met. These resources provide compliance techniques in the credentialing process for healthcare organizations.

Online resources are available for healthcare providers who are interested in human trafficking education and information.

Ensuring an environment is free of infection control risks is important for healthcare organizations. The resources provided include tools focusing on infection control processes in healthcare organizations.

Proactively rounding can identity environmental opportunites for improvement. The checklist can be utilized in all areas of healthcare facilities.

Environment of care regulatory requirements are important to be aware of and addressed in healthcare organizations.

A collection of resources to support a fall prevention program. These resources are comprehensive and provide detailed information from beginning of the performance improvement initiative through measuring the end results. Innovative and evidence-based practice ideas are offered to help an organization implement processes to improve patient fall rates.