Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Resources from the DOJ support anti-trafficking.

Developed by Homeland Security, this assessment combines THIRA and SRA for communities to assess specific threats and threats and set targets for core capabilities.

Resource bundles by the CDC to promote efforts on Antibiotic Stewardship The resources are broken down into different healthcare settings such as outpatient, long term care, and dental care.

A guide to help build and maintain quality measures.

Core elements to improve sepsis provided by the CDC.

Examples of quality measures characterized tby the six domains of health care quality from AHRQ.

Evaluating the current patient safety program is a good way to identify gaps between current practice and best practices. Below are multiple tools that can be used to evaluate the current state of patient safety in your organization against best practices.

Rounding is an effective patient safety and satisfaction tool, but it can be a daunting task to achieve. Provided in this section are tools to help develop rounding processes that provide meaningful information to inform patient care.

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.