Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This Sentinel Event Alert, published by The Joint Commission in 2015, summarizes the contributing factors with patient falls and fall-related injuries from events submitted to their Sentinel Event database. The alert offers common root causes and recommendations to prevent patient falls in the hospital acute care setting.

Use our brochure to educate your patients and their family members during hospitalization.

Include our rack card at discharge to ensure they are prepared to go home.

CMS Surveyors utilize a worksheet to assess infection control practices in a healthcare organizaiton. This resource provides a sample tool used to assess hand hygiene practices.

A risk assessment tool to assist infection control in observing staff anonymously in the patient’s environment. It is a guide to assess for compliance while monitoring staff performing hand hygiene at the same time they are delivering patient care.

A comprehensive self-assessment tool for staff to survey their facility and identify problem areas such as liabilities and risks related to hand hygiene. It assures that procedures in place are compatible with best practices. It is a good source to establish new performance improvement indicators to improve current processes and decrease risk for hospital-acquired infections.

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.

Healthcare organizations should take the possiblity of an active shooter event occuring in their facility very seriously. These resources provide key tactics on managing violent and disruptive behavior as a risk reduction process.