Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting, local programs that provide voluntary, ongoing home visits from trained professionals.

Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting, local programs that provide voluntary, ongoing home visits from trained professionals

Advancing Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW), a program supporting advanced nursing education programs for registered nurses preparing to become primary care nurse practitioners, primary care clinical nurse specialists, and nurse midwives.

Information on numerous programs available to fund Maternal Child Programs to improve care and access.

Toolkit by AHRQ. It helps to improve patient safety, team communication, and quality of care for mothers and thier newborns.

Flyer from The Joint Commission that provides pointers and education for caregivers to prevent the spread of infection through hand hygiene.

Easy-to-use risk assessments are available to evaluate the surgical fire risk before, during and after a surgical procedure. These proactive tools can help provide patient safety measures regarding the prevention of surgical fires.

Staff members should be aware of things that contribute to surgical fires and how to implement fire prevention strategies. Resources in this section are recommended as staff educational materials to help prepare staff to help reduce the potential of surgical fires.

Utilizing lasers in the surgical arena has potential risks which include incomplete treatment, pain, infection and the possiblity of ingniting a fire that can injure the patient. Information is provided on the best practices of laser safety in the surgical arena.

Online resources are available for healthcare providers who are interested in surgical fire prevention and education.

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.