Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Incidents involving active shooters continue to happen across the country and are unfortunately becoming more commonplace in today’s society. This toolkit will help you create an emergency response plan in the event of an active shooter incident within your healthcare facility. The resources in this toolkit will help ensure that your team and facility are prepared. The toolkit includes:

• Training videos detailing how you should react to an active shooter situation.
• Resources to help you create an active shooter drill for your facility.
• Information on dealing with and defusing dangerous behavior and workplace violence.
• Some resources can only be accessed by logging into your member account with LHA Trust Funds.

Appropriate use of antibiotics has a significant impact on the safety of patients nationwide. Overutilization and inappropriate selection of these drugs has led to stronger bacteria that are increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

The Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkit is a collection of sample policies and protocols, self-evaluation tools, measurement information and other resources for healthcare leaders to use in combatting the misuse of antibiotics. These resources aim to help you develop an effective antibiotic stewardship program in your organization.

This toolkit offers updated resources to help improve care for mental health patients who present to an acute care, behavioral health or an intensive outpatient setting. These resources provide an understanding of clinical assessment, behavioral triggers for mental health patients, risk assessment tools, scripting tools, cultural diversity self-assessments, environment of care assessment tools, depression screening tools and hotline resources that can help improve patient experience and provide a safer environment of care.

This clinical alarms toolkit offers information to help understand the current objectives in clinical alarm safety and what risks exist from excessive alarms in the clinical setting such as alarm/alert fatigue. Information is provided to help understand the common causes of excessive alerts and alarms along with innovative strategies to reduce the risk of alarm overload.

Because cyber security risks are constantly evolving, we want the members of our LHA Trust Funds to be as knowledgeable and prepared as possible. This toolkit provides proprietary information as well as public domain information about cyber risks.

This toolkit is designed to help provide a safe environment of care for staff and patients in the Emergency Department and includes tools specific for this department to help reduce risk and improve patient care while taking into account current regulations and national best practice guidelines. In addition, information from experts is offered to address the escalating issue of violence in the ED.

Risk management services designed specifically to address the safety needs of schools, school nursing programs including school based health clinics and special education programs to help you identify risk, understand best practices and implement cost effective strategies to mitigate risk.

The Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a proactive risk tool to help predict which steps in a process have the highest likelihood of
leading to an adverse event. This tool allows a team to intervene and make changes to a process before something negative happens to a patient, visitor or staff member. This example is simply a starting point — designed to be customized to your individual organization.

These licensing requirements must be adhered to for a physician to be considered “licensed” to provide telemedicine to patients who are located outside of Louisiana at the time of service—even if the patient is regularly seen in an office in Louisiana.

It is imperative for the entire surgical team to participate in surgical fire risk identification and mitigation. Resources are provided focusing on risk identification and mitigation strategies.

Louisiana has a wealth of professional organizations supporting many aspects of the healthcare arena. Listed are the organizations found in the state of Louisiana.

This section of the toolkit includes multiple links for nationwide public access to numerous regulatory and governmental resources on public health, emergencies, prevention and treatment of disease, standards, regulations, safety, security, accreditation bodies, public assistance, and guidelines.

This set of regulatory and governmental resources center around the state of Louisiana. Guidance is available on the following subjects: COVID-19, fire, patient compensation, the state workforce, Louisiana law, and law enforcement.

The following is a list of Professional Healthcare Societies providing numerous resources for specialties in healthcare. Each one’s mission is to improve the quality of care given to patients. View each organization to review specific information relative to each service.

Patient education is an important part of ensuring success with the plan of care. Including information on how to handle sharps and needles will help prevent injuries from occurring to patients or others if they are part of the home care plan.