Safe Needles Nurse Toolkit

American Nurses Association (ANA)

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ANA created this Safe Needles Nurse Tookit to ensure that health care employers comply with the law and federal workplace standards to protect against preventable needlestick and other sharps injuries in the workplace. This toolkit is available as several PDF documents and requires Adobe Reader.

IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events (Second Edition)

The IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events provides an easy-to-use method for accurately identifying adverse events (harm) and measuring the rate of adverse events over time. Tracking adverse events over time is a useful way to tell if changes being made are improving the safety of the care processes.

Using Evidence-Based Environmental Design to Enhance Safety and Quality

An IHI developed Trigger tool aimed at closing the gap between safety and quality, and the physical environment in which care is provided. This white paper is geared at health care leaders and explains how as part of an integrated improvement strategy, evidence-based environmental design interventions can measurably enhance care and improve resulting perceptions of patients, families, and staff; and have a positive economic impact on their organization.

Partnering to Heal: Teaming Up Against Healthcare-Associated Infections

The US Department of Health and Human Services developed this computer-based, video-simulation training program on infection control practices. The training demonstrates effective communication about infection control practices and ideas for creating a "culture of safety" in healthcare institutions. The presentation includes information on basic protocols for universal precautions and isolation precautions to protect patients, visitors, and practitioners from the most common disease transmissions.

ENA Workplace Violence Toolkit

Developed by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), this web-based toolkit provides a step-by-step approach to the issue of workplace violence. The toolkit contains: An environmental assessment of an emergency department, an assessment of staff perceptions of workplace violence, a targeted project plan that outlines the intended goals and action items needed , evaluations and documentation that can be used for ongoing improvement. The toolkit is available as a group of several webpages and PDFs, requiring a web browser and Adobe Reader to fully explore the toolkit.

Making Needles Hurt Less

Making Needles Hurt Less is a guide for caregivers to help children understand and better manage needlesticks. It provides helpful words, actions, and ideas to talk to a child about the painful procedure. This tool was developed by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and it is available as a PDF and requires Adobe Reader.

Seven Steps to Patient Safety

Healthcare organizations operate within a complex healthcare system which can brings risks and evidence shows that things will and do go wrong. The National Patient Safety Agency created this toolkit to address these risks and make improvements in distinct areas of medical practice in order to meet clinical governance, risk management and controls assurance targets. This online toolkit offers various exercises to develop safety strategies and tips for safe care in the general practice.

Cost of MRSA Events Tool

GE Healthcare created this calculator tool to assist in the reduction of hospital acquired infection (HAI). Reducing HAI will result in safer, higher quality care for each patient and fewer infections also mean reduced costs. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial infection that can be reduced greatly through improved hand hygiene compliance. Each MRSA infection results in extra pain and care for the patient and the infections can become an extra cost for the hospital to absorb.

Studer Group Toolkit: Patient Safety

The Studer created this toolkit to provide health care organizations with devices that can be put into action to improve patient safety and these devices can be integrated into an organization’s current operations. This toolkit will guide healthcare providers to improve the way a meeting is run, how to talk with patients and how to interview prospective employees. It will also assist with better utilization of time and address national standards as set forth by organizations such as the Joint Commission and IHI. The tool is available as a PDF, requiring Adobe Reader to view the document.

Safe Needles Nurse Toolkit

ANA created this Safe Needles Nurse Tookit to ensure that health care employers comply with the law and federal workplace standards to protect against preventable needlestick and other sharps injuries in the workplace. This toolkit is available as several PDF documents and requires Adobe Reader.

Keys to a Healthy Health Care Facility Toolkit

The Pennsylvania Immunization Coalition (PAIC) projects workgroup developed the Keys to a Healthy Health Care Facility Toolkit with the goal of promoting health care worker immunizations for facilities, organizations, and community providers of health care who recognize how important it is to prevent disease in their facility. This toolkit provides instructions and resources to implement a health care worker immunization campaign in any facility.