Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This bedside mobility assessment tool can be utilized to test a patient’s ability to move safely.

Nurses can use this tool to assess patient mobility at the bedside. It facilitates decision making as to the proper lifting technique required for the patient.

Post this flyer in patient rooms to remind them to call if they need to be moved or lifted.

Injuries in the workplace are frequently caused by lifting heavy items. This document provides tips on the correct way to handle the lifting of heavy items.

These tips present safe patient handling practices for healthcare workers. It supplies algorithms for safety in transfers common to healthcare workers daily.

A checklist from the Indiana Hospital Association for concurrent chart review to ensure sepsis measures are being met. In addition, a Sepsis Treatment Pathway is included from Jackson Memorial Hospital that is designed to help manage antibiotics for sepsis and septic shock according to clinical practice guidelines.

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.