Reducing Restraints Tips
Restraints can cause harm, but there are alternatives. By making informed decisions, we can make resident care safer. Learn about your residents’ physical and emotional needs and individualize their care plans to meet needs. Ask questions about each resident in your care, and for those with restraints, use restraint alternatives when possible.
Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkit for Nursing Homes
Nursing homes are encouraged to work in a step-wise fashion, implementing one or two activities to start and gradually adding new strategies from each element over time. Any action taken to improve antibiotic use is expected to reduce adverse events, prevent emergence of resistance and lead to better outcomes for residents in this setting.
Facility Assessment Tool
The purpose of the assessment is to determine what resources are necessary to care for residents competently during both day-to-day operations and emergencies.
CDI Toolkit
This toolkit should be used by providers and other healthcare professionals working to reduce HAIs. Each section contains information and additional online resources that can be used at any stage of progress.
QIO | Antibiotics Aware Word Search
Fun and educational! Word game that teaches the facts about antibiotics.
Readmission Root Cause Analysis Tool – Skilled Nursing Facility
Tool to find the root cause of a nursing home’s problem.
Sepsis Zone Tool in Spanish
Zone tool for patients to assess sepsis symptoms after leaving the hospital. (Spanish version)
Sepsis Zone Tool
Zone tool for patients to assess sepsis symptoms after leaving the hospital.
Renal Failure Zone Tool
Zone tool for patients to assess renal failure after leaving the hospital.
Fishbone Diagram
Getting to the root cause of a system’s issue is important to prevent the problem from returning.
Elements of Pressure Ulcer Prevention – A Discussion and Evaluation
Most pressure ulcers are preventable. Here are some elements of pressure ulcer prevention. Read, discuss and answer the questions; then, use your responses as part of a facility pressure ulcer prevention self-evaluation.