Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Provides provisions to maintaining school nurse licensure including mental health care and billing guidelines.

School Health Programs that promote healthy lifestyles and focus on prevention of disease.

The state agency that oversees educations of all children and provides resources including policies for educators, families and students.

Provides a list for all school based centers that can provide services to students of all ages.

Techniques on teaching children correct hand hygiene.

A document that highlights CDC's key measures to provide safe delivery of in-person instruction.

Hospitals must leverage strategic planning and organizational policies to demonstrate a commitment to safety as a core value. The use of written policies and protocols that demonstrate patient safety is a priority, and identifying goals, metrics and practices to advance progress is foundational to creating an accountable and transparent organization. Hospitals should acknowledge the ultimate goal of zero preventable harm, even while recognizing that this goal may not be currently attainable and requires a continual process of improvement and commitment. Patient safety and equity in care are inextricable and therefore equity, with the goal of safety for all individuals, must be embedded in safety planning, goal-setting, policy and processes.

Hospitals must integrate a suite of evidence-based practices and protocols that are fundamental to cultivating a hospital culture that prioritizes safety and establishes a learning system both within and across hospitals. These practices focus on actively seeking and harnessing information to develop a proactive, hospital-wide approach to optimizing safety and eliminating preventable harm. Hospitals must establish an integrated infrastructure (i.e., people and systems working collaboratively) and foster psychological safety among staff to effectively and reliably implement these practices.

Accountability for outcomes, as well as transparency around safety events and performance, represents the cornerstones of a culture of safety. For hospital leaders, clinical and non-clinical staff, patients, and families to learn from safety events and prevent harm, there must exist a culture that promotes event reporting without fear or hesitation, and safety data collection and analysis with the free flow of information.

The senior leadership and governing board at hospitals sets the tone for commitment to patient safety. They must be accountable for patient safety outcomes and ensure that patient safety is the highest priority for the hospital. While the hospital leadership and the governing board may convene a board committee dedicated to patient safety, the most senior governing board must oversee all safety activities and hold the organizational leadership accountable for outcomes. Patient safety should be central to all strategic, financial, and operational decisions.

It is imperative for the entire surgical team to participate in surgical fire risk identification and mitigation. Resources are provided focusing on risk identification and mitigation strategies.