Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

The CDC website provides great resources on diseases and conditions as it relates to the healthcare industry.

APIC provides great resources on infection control topics for healthcare professionals.

Chapter 10 of the AHRQ book, Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses, that focuses on Fall and Injury Prevention. This chapter presents a background and statistical analysis of patient falls and also gives evidence-based fall prevention recommendations.

A Fall Prevention toolkit created by the National Center for Patient Safety that is designed to help organizations develop comprehensive fall prevention programs. This toolkit contains sample policies, performance improvement tools, educational videos and other resources that they have developed and used in the VA system.

A resource to support organizations through the entire process of implementing a program to reduce patient falls. This toolkit addresses organizational readiness for change, development and measurement of fall prevention programs.

This resource, developed by the American Nurses Association, provides information on how to measure success with a fall prevention program while tying into the journey to being a highly reliable organization. This is an excellent resource to show incorporation of patient safety into organizational commitment to zero harm.

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.