Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

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 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.

This resource provides tactics to reduce the use of inappropriate antibiotic medications in healthcare organizations.

Physician scorecards are a great visual tool to give prescribers a snapshot of their own personal performance towards antibiotic stewardship goals. Use this tool as a guide to create comprehensive antibiotic stewardship measures that can be used for the on-going performance improvement of prescribers.

Physician scorecards are a great visual tool to give prescribers a snapshot of their own personal performance towards antibiotic stewardship goals. This blank scorecard can be used as a guide to create customized antibiotic stewardship measures for on-going performance improvement of prescribers.

Click to view the presentation slides used in the Practical Applications of the Antibiogram webinar.

Use this document to assist you with auditing individual patient records related to antibiotic stewardship. The document facilitates collection of all related information on one page.

This table provided by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) offers recommendations for measuring outcomes in your Antibiotic Stewardship program. The measures include infection control and medication usage measures to help determine program effectiveness. Measurement criteria include:

• Staff development and program training
  
• IV to PO conversion program initiatives

Although it is healthcare's goal to maintain a safe environment at all times, violence remains a significant concern today. It is vital to implement processes to prevent workplace violence. Security practices can include an array of methods. The following documents provide best practices and alternative approaches that may be applied when handling violent encounters.

Reducing the risk of encountering an active shooter situation is important to any business, especially healthcare. These resources provide tools on how to plan what to do in the event of an active shooter/violent situation.

Acitve shooter events are increasing more and more across the U.S. and the experts have developed tools to help the lay person identify a potential active shooter as a risk reduction strategy.

Healthcare organizations should take the possiblity of an active shooter event occuring in their facility very seriously. These resources provide key tactics on managing violent and disruptive behavior as a risk reduction process.

Active shooter training is vital for all staff in a healthcare organization as they are the eyes and ears of the facility. These resources help ensure staff are trained and prepared to address violent/aggressive behavior/situations.