Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

A report provided by The Joint Commission that discusses patient fall occurrences and provides insights into the top contributing factors to patient falls. The report offers helpful ideas on how to mitigate risks to the contributing factors.

This resource presents an overview for development of an effective fall prevention program, including a policy development template that addresses the components of a fall prevention policy. In addition, resources are provided on the effects of specific drugs on fall risk and a fall prevention checklist to help promote the safety of patients.

Patient falls are one of the most common adverse events. This fall prevention self-assessment tool allows you to evaluate your organization’s current practices against best practices to prevent falls. The tool is designed to help you assess the overall program from unit level interventions to overall data collection.

This Sentinel Event Alert, published by The Joint Commission in 2015, summarizes the contributing factors with patient falls and fall-related injuries from events submitted to their Sentinel Event database. The alert offers common root causes and recommendations to prevent patient falls in the hospital acute care setting.

Use our brochure to educate your patients and their family members during hospitalization.

Include our rack card at discharge to ensure they are prepared to go home.

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.

Prioritizing our Healthcare Workers: The importance of Addressing the Intersection of Workplace Violence and Mental Health and Wellbeing