Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This document assists in identifying a viable threat and using the proper channels to report an emergency incident to appropriate authorities.

This factsheet from CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) provides a pathway related to warning signs, prevention, and interventions to handle violence.

A series on de-escalation, including recognizing, assessing, de-escalating, and reporting suspicious or escalating behaviors, including factors that trigger this type of behavior.

This attachment teaches how to manage these behaviors with appropriate responses through communication, gestures and the demeanor utilized to control the event.

This paper assists in knowing how to assess triggers, including self-presentation and early identification of changes in a patient’s behavior to de-escalate a situation and handle a threat.

This form distinguishes changes in behavior, patterns that lead to this behavior, and how to identify them.

This factsheet from CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) provides a pathway related to warning signs, prevention, and interventions to handle violence.

Environment of care regulatory requirements are important to be aware of and addressed in healthcare organizations.

A collection of resources to support a fall prevention program. These resources are comprehensive and provide detailed information from beginning of the performance improvement initiative through measuring the end results. Innovative and evidence-based practice ideas are offered to help an organization implement processes to improve patient fall rates.

A concise, easy-to-use risk assessment, created by the LHA Trust Funds, to evaluate your current fall prevention program against best practices. This simple tool can help provide a quick snapshot as to whether your program is addressing basic patient fall prevention functions.

Staff members should be aware of things that contribute to patient falls and how to implement fall prevention strategies. Resources in this section are recommended as staff educational materials to help prepare staff to help reduce patient fall rates.

These tools provide an analysis of current emergency preparedness plans. This analysis advises on how to evaluate and test procedures and implement improvements of identified hazards.

Hospital-acquired infections can lead to severe illness or death. The following data gives guidance on assessment of work areas, staff practices and interventions to reduce infection spread.