Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Violence in healthcare has escalated over the years and constitutes approximately 74% of workplace violence events reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is imperative that organizational leaders develop plans to prevent violence and train staff to identify and de-escalate violent behaviors as well as respond appropriately when an event occurs. This toolkit contains many resources to help facilitate the development of comprehensive violence prevention programs within your organization.

Maternal health encompasses the health of the pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period in women’s healthcare. Healthcare provider’s goals in maternal care are to reduce morbidity and mortality by providing safe, quality services to the mother and her baby. This objective can be accomplished by identifying risks, educating patients and following recommended guidelines of evidence-based practice. This toolkit supplies resources to benefit in the improvement of maternal health.

This organization and an agency of HHS. It supports the community, including laypersons and healthcare professionals, financially to provide healthcare resources. Visit the site for the many avenues they offer and to apply for grants, loans, or scholarships.

This organization provides information on hot topics for surgical and perioperative staff. These include burn out and surgical fires. Keep up to date with the latest new and safe surgery resources for both patients and staff members by visiting this site.

The Emergency Nurses Association provides an information page w with the latest information on the pandemic. Learn more about emergency nursing with educational opportunities, practice resources, and government relations offered on this webpage.

This Association entrusts nurses who provide family care. It provides education, research, professional development, and advocacy on women’s health and their families.

The center provides privileging forms, processes, and regulatory requirements. Additional resources include tools, networking, and data analysis.

The Surgical Technologists' goal is to ensure quality surgical care, safe equipment, ongoing education, legislative news, and public policy.

Communication breakdowns can be a root cause in many adverse events in healthcare. Therefore, developing processes to improve communication among staff is an important aspect of any patient safety program. Tools are provided in this section to help improve communication at critical transfers of patient care.

This section of the toolkit consists of many tools related to pain management safety covering standards, patient agreement forms, screenings, practices, safety interventions and oversedation risks related to post administration of opioid therapy.

The overdose of opioids can be fatal. The following attachments are provided to assess and treat patients at risk and prevent and reduce overdoses.

Due to the rise of opioid overdoses, it is vital to implement a plan to manage these circumstances. Strategies to prepare staff response, prevent overdose and attend to an overdose patient can be viewed below.

Recommendations, tools, sample policies and protocols can be found in Opioid Prescribing Best Practices. This data distributes information on chronic pain, pain experienced by specific age populations and particular requirements involved with these medication's dispensing.

Education is crucial to the prevention of an overdose. The following presentation shares concerns related to the risks, patient monitoring and development of policies. This material prepares staff to maintain safety with the administration of opioids.