Patient Safety

A list of websites with good information on regulatory, accreditation and patient safety topics. Save this list to your computer and add to it as you grow into your role.

Tracers are meant to simulate real surveys so you can test yourself. This is an example of what an inpatient tracer should look like.

This document survey as an audit tool to demonstrate compliance with restraint/seclusion requirements with both CMS and AOs.

Use this 13-step list to evaluate your current restraint/seculsion policies.

A non-comprehensive list of safety precautions to take before, during, and after surgery by the WHO.

Sometimes surgeons will perform part of a surgery and leave partway through to work on another patient. If this practice is done at your facility, use this checklist.

A checklist of risk factors that could cause a patient fall from the CDC

Run through this list to assess harm after a patient has fallen.

A handoff is when a patient is transferred between caregivers, and the information those caregivers share. This article is on the importance of these handoffs, and includes mnemonics and a one-page printout example on how to improve transfers.