Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This factsheet from CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) provides a pathway related to warning signs, prevention, and interventions to handle violence.

A series on de-escalation, including recognizing, assessing, de-escalating, and reporting suspicious or escalating behaviors, including factors that trigger this type of behavior.

This paper assists in knowing how to assess triggers, including self-presentation and early identification of changes in a patient’s behavior to de-escalate a situation and handle a threat.

This form distinguishes changes in behavior, patterns that lead to this behavior, and how to identify them.

This factsheet from CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) provides a pathway related to warning signs, prevention, and interventions to handle violence.

This letter can be provided and will be sent to injured workers explaining how to obtain prescriptions related to a work injury.

This letter can be provided and will be sent to injured workers explaining how to obtain prescriptions related to a work injury.

It is essential to have up-to-date policies, procedures and forms to support your violence prevention program. This section contains samples that can be used to help you develop your own customized documents.

Prevention of wounds is the best strategy for patient care. These resources offer information on best practices in preventing skin breakdown in patients.

Performance improvement can strengthen an organization's strategies. These processes determine areas in need of improvement, reconstruct and improve processes to provide safe, high-quality care. Improving Quality Performance Measures supplies tools to assist with improvement projects identified in the organization.

To provide safe, quality care, an organization requires a plan to improve processes continuously. Quality Improvement Programs originate from a team managed by leadership implementing various strategies to achieve success. Staff involved in these details realize the effects these processes bear on a facility. Below is a collection of tools that can benefit personnel to enhance practices consistently.

Work-related dangers faced by healthcare providers are real and occur frequently. Having a safe patient handling program in place can enhance patient care and safety and reduce the risk of employee injuries. These resources provide a focus on the key points in healthcare safe patient handling programs.

It is essential to have up-to-date policies, procedures and forms to support your safe patient handling program. This section containes tools and tactics that can be used to help you develop your own program.