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Video: Infection Control Basics for Healthcare Laundry Services
This 8-minute training video covers basic infection control practices for healthcare laundry service areas and is designed for all staff involved in the laundering process.
Building Health Literate Organizations: A Guidebook to Achieving Organizational Change
This guidebook will help health care organizations of any size engage in organizational change to become health literate.
Develop a Culture of Safety: Safety Briefing Tools
In a culture of safety, people are not merely encouraged to work toward change; they take action when it is needed. Inaction in the face of safety problems is taboo, and eventually the pressure comes from all directions — from peers as well as leaders.
High-Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings
Use ISMP's List of High-Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings to determine which medications in your organization require special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm.
List of Confused Drug Names
Use this list to determine which medications require special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm.
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is a nonprofit organization devoted entirely to preventing medication errors.
Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)
AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) program was developed to be used by all types of staff in hospitals, nursing homes, medical offices, community pharmacies, and ambulatory surgery centers to assess patient safety culture.
National Quality Forum
National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership-based organization that works to catalyze improvements in healthcare. OPSC is a proud NQF member.
Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process: A Toolkit for Rapid-Cycle Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
The tools in this step-by-step guide can increase the reliability of the testing process in your office by helping you examine how tests are managed.
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, is a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001).
Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections
These guidelines have been developed for healthcare personnel who insert intravascular catheters and for persons responsible for surveillance and control of infections in hospital, outpatient, and home healthcare settings.
TeamSTEPPS
AHRQ’s TeamSTEPPS is a teamwork system designed for health care professionals. It has a three-phased process aimed at creating and sustaining a culture of safety and provides higher quality, safer patient care.
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