Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This form is required by the Office of Workers’ Compensation within 10 days of the incident. Similar to the Employee Interview Form, the FROI form documents the information of the employer, carrier, employee, occurrence and injury.

The Candence RX Pharmacy Card is provided to each injured worker for the convenience of obtaining prescriptions related to their work injury.

This form is required by all employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits in the state of Louisiana for supplemental earning benefit claims. The 1020 form should be submitted on a monthly basis to report the claimant’s previous month’s earnings.

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.

Measurement of data is helpful in improving processes within an organization. These tools are helpful in providing some direction with the types of data that can be compiled and used for performance improvement with antibiotic usage.

It may be difficult for some staff members to understand their role in antibiotic stewardship. These resources can be used to educate staff members on how they can promote antibiotic stewardship through vigilence and patient education.

A job description is a tool that describes, in plain language, the functions and responsibilities of a position. A great leadership idea for reinforcing a commitment to antibiotic stewardship is to add language into the job descriptions incorporating these responsibilities into activities for certain positions. These are a few good examples of language to use in job descriptions to support antibiotic stewardship as a priority at the facility.

Below is a collection of sample policies and procedures that facility administrators may use to effectively implement the Antibiotic Stewardship Program within their clinic or hospital.

Healthcare providers must be knowledgeable of the issues, risks and responses associated with care of the behavioral health patient. The following information will assist healthcare providers to optimize treatment of behavioral patients that present in various healthcare settings.

Depression and suicide screens are essential in identifying high-risk patients. Screening, assessment, re-assessment, education and prevention are the keys to a successful program. Provided are multiple tools to evaluate patients who present with signs and symptoms related to depression and suicide.