Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Resource bundles by the CDC to promote efforts on Antibiotic Stewardship The resources are broken down into different healthcare settings such as outpatient, long term care, and dental care.

A guide to help build and maintain quality measures.

Core elements to improve sepsis provided by the CDC.

Examples of quality measures characterized tby the six domains of health care quality from AHRQ.

Form to be completed defined by the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy for a referreal by physician for Medical Marijuana

The LDH provides information on the Cannabis Program in Louisiana. The information addresses medical marijuana regulations, use of hemp products, registration, COA, and labeling .

Patient education is an important part of ensuring success with the plan of care. Including information on how to handle sharps and needles will help prevent injuries from occurring to patients or others if they are part of the home care plan.

Awareness and evaluation of the types of sharps within your organization and where these sharps are used can be helpful in implementing injury prevention plans.

A worksheet, developed by the CDC, that can help an employer calculate the average cost of a sharp related injury. This type of worksheet can help build a campaign to obtain leadership commitment of the problem or it can be used as a PI tool.

The additional online resources in this section provide information related to safe lifting best practices.

Evaluating proper lifting techniques and comparing them against safe lifting best practices is useful when trying to identify opportunities for improvement. Tools in this section are examples of tools that can be used to improve performance.

Certain practices are important to preventing injury when lifting materials within the healthcare organization. Resources provided in this section will be helpful in reminding employees of the best practices that should be used prior to performing a lift.