Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

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WOCN is a nursing community devoted to providing skilled medical management to patients with wounds, ostomy, and continence care needs. This page offers educations, the latest news, resources, hot topics, and much more member-only benefits.

This foundation is to ensure optimal trauma care to all patients. This forum includes education, resources, and membership to collaborate with peers to provide high-quality care.

The Oncology Nursing Society provides professional development, resources, and networking to improve cancer quality. Visit the site to connect with the ONS community.

The SPN, Society of Pediatric Nurses, the database includes professional development, community engagement, education, and practice resources to advance the specialty.

This organization is to mentor students and instill core values in the nursing workforce. It promotes advocacy, leadership, autonomy, professionalism, care, diversity, and education. Visit the site for resources, links, calendar events, and more membership information.

The ED is typically a fast-paced, high-stress clinical environment with a wide range of conditions being treated among a variety of age groups at any given time. Resources in this category are designed to support risk reduction efforts related to unique ED department concerns.

Attention to medication safety is of the utmost importance in the ED due to the variety of patient conditions and age groups being treated. Resources are provided to address safe use of medication, as well as moderate and conscious sedation in the ED.

This section contains information related to regulations and compliance issues that may impact the ED.

The ED plays an important role in an organization's interdisciplinary emergency preparedness plan. Resources in this section are provided to support the ED's unique role in emergency preparedness.

Patient monitoring devices will transmit a high number of alerts each shift and provide a layer of patient safety. However, if ignored or turned off by healthcare providers, this can possibly cause patient safety incidents. Information is provided to ensure healthcare providers are focusing on clinical alarm safety.

Tools and information that are helpful in developing processes to support clinical alarm management. Organizations that implement similar processes are displaying characteristics of highly reliable organizations in the area of clinical alarm management.