Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

A comprehensive guide to safe patient handling from the Massachusetts Nurses Association. The guide addresses many issues related to safe patient handling such as consequences of inappropriate lifting techniques, benefits of safe patient handling programs, types of patient movement and lifts and tips to avoid back injuries.

Facts about moving patients, the use of mechanical equipment and creating a change of culture.

This self-assessment tool examines the number and nature of patient handling injuries occurring in your organization.

Use this checklist to compare your current policies and practices against best practices in safe patient handling.

Tools for improving patient outcomes in activity and mobility. It addresses incorporating safe patient handling into care plans and includes case studies on the use of an activity scale to determine the patient’s level of movement assistance.

This guide provides resources for safe patient handling and movement in surgical areas. It was developed by identifying high-risk tasks performed in the perioperative area and developing evidence-based solutions to reduce the risk of injury.

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.