Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This form is required by the Office of Workers’ Compensation within 10 days of the incident. Similar to the Employee Interview Form, the FROI form documents the information of the employer, carrier, employee, occurrence and injury.

The Candence RX Pharmacy Card is provided to each injured worker for the convenience of obtaining prescriptions related to their work injury.

This form is required by all employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits in the state of Louisiana for supplemental earning benefit claims. The 1020 form should be submitted on a monthly basis to report the claimant’s previous month’s earnings.

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.

The Joint Commission's recent Sentinel Event Alert discusses the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities causing mortality and morbidity in pregnant and postpartum patients.

The plan and design of the facility, along with patient surroundings, are make up the environmental of care. Checklists and assessments are provided in this section to assist an organization in maintaining safe inpatient and outpatient behavioral health settings.

Claims frequently occur involving those patients who are committed for psychiatric treatment. This section offers resources to mitigate risks leading to such claims.

This collection of tools provides descriptions of what antibiotic stewardship means and how to develop an effective program. Information is also provided on how antibiotic stewardship can be incorporated into performance improvement initiatives to improve patient outcomes and reimbursement.

Mental Health Resources inform patients, families and healthcare providers of accessible services related to mental health disorders, addictive disorders and substance abuse. Those listed below consist of national hotlines, self-assessments, advocacy services and regulatory authority.

Measurement of data is helpful in improving processes within an organization. These tools are helpful in providing some direction with the types of data that can be compiled and used for performance improvement with antibiotic usage.

It may be difficult for some staff members to understand their role in antibiotic stewardship. These resources can be used to educate staff members on how they can promote antibiotic stewardship through vigilence and patient education.