Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

An article to support the benefits of leadership rounds in safety.

A gap analysis designed to assist organizations at evaluating current practices against best practices in their journey to being highly reliable.

An informative powerpoint presentation from IHI discussing how to develop a culture of safety that supports patient care.

Sample culture of safety survey from AHRQ.

Sentinel Event Alert Issue #57 from The Joint Commission discussing culture of safety.

Nurse Burnout compromises patient care and the health of an employee. Burnout is a type of human factor causation that can be associated with many adverse events such as higher mortality rates and medical errors. Getting a handle on nurse burnout and implementing changes to prevent the problem is a focus for highly reliable organizations.

Listen to our podcast to learn more about behaviors that occur with burnout and simple things leaders can do to prevent it from occurring.

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.