Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

This factsheet from CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) provides a pathway related to warning signs, prevention, and interventions to handle violence.

A series on de-escalation, including recognizing, assessing, de-escalating, and reporting suspicious or escalating behaviors, including factors that trigger this type of behavior.

This paper assists in knowing how to assess triggers, including self-presentation and early identification of changes in a patient’s behavior to de-escalate a situation and handle a threat.

This form distinguishes changes in behavior, patterns that lead to this behavior, and how to identify them.

This factsheet from CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) provides a pathway related to warning signs, prevention, and interventions to handle violence.

This letter can be provided and will be sent to injured workers explaining how to obtain prescriptions related to a work injury.

This letter can be provided and will be sent to injured workers explaining how to obtain prescriptions related to a work injury.

Attached are resources that pertain to the care of a newborn. The Apgar score is a tool that assesses the health status of an infant at birth and helps guide the future care of newborns. AWONN suggests recommendations on the power of touch between a newborn and mother after birth and appropriate staff training to proceed with this process.

Work-related dangers faced by healthcare providers are real and occur frequently. Having a safe patient handling program in place can enhance patient care and safety and reduce the risk of employee injuries. These resources provide a focus on the key points in healthcare safe patient handling programs.

It is essential to have up-to-date policies, procedures and forms to support your safe patient handling program. This section containes tools and tactics that can be used to help you develop your own program.

It is essential to have up-to-date policies, procedures and forms to support your safe patient handling program. This section contains resources that focus on patient and employee safety.

Resources to assist organizations with understanding and implementing best practices for identification and treatment of sepsis in order to improve patient outcomes.

Sample tools that can be used to facilitate compliance with national sepsis clinical practice guidelines. Use these ideas to help customize unique tools for your organization, such as pocket references and posters for staff, standing order sets and performance improvement checklists.