Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This resource provides tactics to reduce the use of inappropriate antibiotic medications in healthcare organizations.

Physician scorecards are a great visual tool to give prescribers a snapshot of their own personal performance towards antibiotic stewardship goals. Use this tool as a guide to create comprehensive antibiotic stewardship measures that can be used for the on-going performance improvement of prescribers.

Physician scorecards are a great visual tool to give prescribers a snapshot of their own personal performance towards antibiotic stewardship goals. This blank scorecard can be used as a guide to create customized antibiotic stewardship measures for on-going performance improvement of prescribers.

Use this document to assist you with auditing individual patient records related to antibiotic stewardship. The document facilitates collection of all related information on one page.

A table offers recommendations for measuring outcomes in your Antibiotic Stewardship program. The measure includes infection control and medication usage to help determine program effectiveness.

This resource provides you with another example of an in-depth Gap Analysis tool for antimicrobial management programs. The downloadable checklist and evaluation matrix will guide you in evaluating the current state of your antibiotic stewardship program by comparing it to program elements that are considered best practices.

It is essential to understand a security program. These resources help build and sustain a security program in healthcare. Sources delve further into risk considerations of law enforcement's presence in the emergency room and guidance to infant abductions.

Although it is healthcare's goal to maintain a safe environment at all times, violence remains a significant concern today. It is vital to implement processes to prevent workplace violence. Security practices can include an array of methods. The following documents provide best practices and alternative approaches that may be applied when handling violent encounters.

Reducing the risk of encountering an active shooter situation is important to any business, especially healthcare. These resources provide tools on how to plan what to do in the event of an active shooter/violent situation.

Acitve shooter events are increasing more and more across the U.S. and the experts have developed tools to help the lay person identify a potential active shooter as a risk reduction strategy.