Toolkits
Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library
Browse our extensive toolkit library for helpful tips, tools and resources designed to make your job easier!
Our toolkits are your one-stop-shop for information pertinent to improving processes, identifying best practices, reducing risks, obtaining education information, and much more.
Have an idea or a specific need for a toolkit you don’t see listed here? Please contact Vice President of Patient Safety & Risk Stacie Jenkins at staciejenkins@lhatrustfunds.com to share your suggestion.
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Violence Prevention Toolkit View Full Toolkit
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 Toolkit View Full Toolkit
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.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AHRQ focuses on healthcare research systems, practice improvement, and data & analytics to provide high quality, affordable, and accessible care for all. This site includes featured programs, funding & grants, news, events, and research on quality and patient safety.
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American Association for Respiratory Care AARC
This forum consists of the latest news related to respiratory care. A member can join this Association for education, advocacy, and many resources for respiratory therapists.
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AAAHC-Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care is an institution for quality improvement. It offers benchmarking studies and data reporting, toolkits on patient safety and disease management, recognizes exemplary care, and coordinates with national organizations.
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Louisiana Workforce Commission
This link allows the workforce seeking jobs, employer resources, discussion on unemployment insurance, workers compensation, wages and data, covid-19, and more news and topics of interest.
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Louisiana State Policy-Right to Know
Public Safety Services shares Louisiana State Police data for public access to report suspicious activity, access to the sex offender registry, training, and public affairs. This site also includes numerous contact information, hotlines, documents, education, and other resources on hazardous materials and explosives.
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Louisiana State Legislature-Laws
The Louisiana State Legislature provides a searchable site on Louisiana laws and access to bills and sessions through legislative committees. The accessible content involves revised statutes, codes, rules, orders, Louisiana register, and reports.
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Fall Prevention Self Assessments
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.View Full Topic -
Fall Prevention - Staff Resources
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.View Full Topic -
Infection Prevention and Mitigation
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.View Full Topic -
Assessment and Monitoring
Provided are a set of tools that offer self-assessment, instruction and monitoring of infection control practices to mitigate hospital-acquired infections.View Full Topic -
Staff Education
Staff training is required for faculty responsible for infection control. This educational material discusses precautions, prevention, appropriate techniques and organisms liable for the spread of infection.View Full Topic -
Clinical Alarm Safety
Patient monitoring devices will transmit a high number of alerts each shift and provide a layer of patient safety. However, if ignored or turned off by healthcare providers, this can possibly cause patient safety incidents. Information is provided to ensure healthcare providers are focusing on clinical alarm safety.View Full Topic
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