Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

A companion document to the Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety. The implementation guide is an overview of the aims, recommendations, and suggested tactics for implementing the recommendations for each of the foundational areas of the National Action Plan; and carefully curated organizational case examples, selected resources, and additional reading to support implementation efforts.

This toolkit highlights four general strategic areas for interventions that are the most impactful in targeting MRSA and SSI prevention.

The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Modified for Adolescents (PHQ-9-M) is a self-report tool used to assess the presence and severity of depressive symptoms in teenagers.

A guide on compromised credential material. It includes elements that help recognize risks and strategies to mitigate these risks.

This document assists in identifying a viable threat and using the proper channels to report an emergency incident to appropriate authorities.

This attachment teaches how to manage these behaviors with appropriate responses through communication, gestures and the demeanor utilized to control the event.

Implementing a Violence Prevention program requires an organized approach focusing on planning, identifying and engaging stakeholders, development and implementation of policies and procedures, prevention strategies and staff education. Provided here are best practice resources.

Safety and security are a great place for your organization to start when assessing or building your program. Good security and safety measures are provided as a resource.

It is essential to have up-to-date policies, procedures and forms to support your violence prevention program. This section contains samples that can be used to help you develop your own customized documents.

Challenges remain in attempts to improve the reproductive health of the U.S. population. Recommendations for family planning and related preventative health services are availble on the CDC website.

This section includes numerous resources on how to get started with initiating telehealth in your organization. It consists of a variety of information from a startup checklist to a set of best practices and steps to developing a successful program.

We have gathered resources created by professional organizations that share established standards, guidelines, and patient safety tools. You can utilize these resources in your organization to reduce maternal death, hemorrhage, and other conditions that can affect women’s health.