- TeamSTEPPS Overview Flyer
- TeamSTEPPS Supplemental Guide
- NHSN Monthly Reporting Guide
- NHSN Required Monthly Data Reporting Tracking Tool
Just Culture On-demand Training:
- Just Culture Champion Role
- What is a Just Culture? — Handout
- What is a Just Culture in Health Care? (recording) (4 minutes)
- In a Just Culture, What Behaviors Can we Expect? (recording) (3 minutes, 21 seconds)
Culture of Safety Huddle Series:
- Fostering a Culture of Safety (recording)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHQR) Survey of Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) (recording)
- Reducing All-Cause Harm (recording)
- Linking a Just Culture with a Culture of Safety (recording)
- TeamSTEPPS (recording)
- Emergency Department (ED) Affinity Group Wrap-Up: Strategies for Optimizing ED Metrics
- Emergency Department Measure Tool Instructions
- Findings From the Field: Post-Discharge to Follow-Up Contact
- Care Coordination Practices Toolkit
- Risk Stratification to Manage High-Risk Patients (recording)
- Risk Stratification to Manage High-Risk Patients Guide
Effective Discharge Follow-up Emergency Departments Huddle Series:
- Managing Follow-up Contact after an Emergency Department Visit (recording)
- Strategies to Reduce Risk with Patients Who Leave the Emergency Department without Being Seen (recording)
Learning and Action Network:
- Impacting Readmissions (Part 1) (recording)
- Impacting Readmissions (Part 2) (recording)
Naloxone Keeps the Circle Strong: Community Resources
This three minute video shows you when and how to use naloxone.
- Watch: How to Use Naloxone
Post these community posters at your facility, with community partners, or in any appropriate community settings. Naloxone is an important tool to keep communities safe!
- Community Poster: Naloxone Keeps the Circle Strong (blue)
- Community Poster: Naloxone Keeps the Circle Strong (white)
Opioid overdoses impact all walks of life. Unfortunately, opioid overdoses can happen to anyone – elders can be forgetful, children are curious, busy parents are distracted. Learn more about what an opioid overdose is and how taking the simple step of asking for Naloxone nasal spray at your pharmacy can end up being a life-saving action.
- Watch: Jeni’s Rx Awareness Story
Jeni shares how she withdrew from her culture because of prescription opioids but reconnected through recovery. - Watch: Stevi Rae’s Rx Awareness Story
Stevi Rae struggled with addiction after a car crash and tells how sharing her story with other Alaska Natives helped. - Try: Conversation Starter
Prescription opioids (like hydrocodone, oxycodone, and morphine) are one of the many options for reducing severe pain. While these medications can reduce pain during short-term use, they come with serious risks including addiction and death from overdose. Make sure you know all the risks and benefits of treatments and how to reduce the risk of opioid addiction and overdose. - Read: Preventing an Overdose: Know the Signs. Save a life.
Death from an opioid overdose happens when too much of the drug overwhelms the brain and interrupts the body’s natural drive to breathe. During an overdose, breathing can be dangerously slowed or stopped, causing brain damage or death. It’s important to recognize the signs and act fast. - Use: Lifesaving Naloxone
Naloxone should be a main stay of a first aid kit. Inhalers and antihistamines can save a life and so can Naloxone.
Naloxone Keeps the Circle Strong: Provider
Use this script to help get the naloxone conversation started. This document includes prompts for different questions that may come up about naloxone. Help patients and families understand why naloxone is an important first aid tool.
Other Naloxone Resources:
- Support: Conversation starter for pharmacy teams in co-prescribing naloxone with opioids.
Did you know that pharmacists have up to 10 times more interactions with patients than primary care providers for pain and chronic condition management? The pharmacy is an opportunity to share information about Naloxone. - Review: Assessment: Do You Know the Risk Factors for an Opioid Overdose?
A risk assessment can only take a few minutes, yet may end up saving the life of a patient. - Use: Instructions for Healthcare Providers: Prescribing Naloxone
One page document that lists reasons for prescribing naloxone and the DAST-10 screening tool with billing instructions. - Read: Naloxone Prescribing Practice Guidelines
This document has descriptions of who to prescribe naloxone to; patient education and counseling topics; and other recommendations on speaking with patients and patient resources. - Watch: An Opioid Overdose Training Video
Listen to a family’s story about their family member who had opioid overdose issues post-surgery and how to respond to opioid overdose.
Other Resources:
Learning and Action Network:
- The Journey to Trauma-Informed Care (recording)
- CDC Comprehensive Hospital Preparedness Checklist for COVID-19 (slides)
- The Facts About MIS-C and Children Poster 8.5 x 11
COVID-19 Vaccination Huddle:
To request a copy of any of the notes for the topics listed below, please email PATH@comagine.org
- IHS Vaccine Plan and Workflow Overview
- How Vaccines Work; Vaccine Clinic Design and Workflow, Part
- Vaccine Clinic Design and Workflow, Part 2
- Improving the COVID-19 Conversation
- Setting up a Mass Vaccination Clinic
- Motivational Interviewing and COVID-19 Acceptance
- Updates on 3 Vaccines and on COVID-19 Variants
- Approaches for Trauma-Informed Vaccine Rollout
- Vaccine Uptake vs Hesitancy; and Successes in Indian Country
- Coping With Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19
- One Year Later: Celebrations and Reflections
- Resources for Building Age-Friendly Health Systems
- Patient and Family Engagement LAN (video recording)
Learning and Action Network:
- The Journey to Trauma-Informed Care (recording)
- QAPI Review Worksheet
- QAPI Program Toolkit
- Improvement Plan Criteria Checklist
- QI Continuum Worksheet
- Reducing Waste in Health Care (video recording)
QAPI On-demand Training:
- What is QAPI? (2 minutes, 12 seconds)
- Why QAPI Matters (2 minutes)
- What Does QAPI Require? (1 minute, 36 seconds)
- Who is Responsible for QAPI? (1 minute, 28 seconds)
- What is a QAPI Program? (2 minutes 17 seconds)
- What is a QAPI Plan? (1 minute 32 seconds)
- How Do We Know What to Improve? (3 minutes, 31 seconds)
- What is a PI Project? (1 minute, 58 seconds)
- How Do You Structure a PI Project? (4 minutes, 2 seconds)
- How Do You Define a Project Aim? (3 minutes, 56 seconds)
- How Do We Know What Change to Test? (3 minutes, 12 seconds)
- What Is Data? (2 minutes, 34 seconds)
- How Do We Use Data for QAPI? (4 minutes) /p>
- Doing It Well (2 minutes, 57 seconds)
- Learning and Action Network:
- Strategic Planning (recording)
- Governing Body (recording)
- Preparing for the Year Ahead (recording)
- Health Care Equity Plan Template
Incorporates fundamentals of the TJC requirements within a structured policy format. The plan leaves space and flexibility for hospitals to identify and track specific program goals, responsible staff and/or stakeholders and actions to take to work toward and achieve plan goals.
- TJC Health Equity and Disparities Gap Analysis Checklist
- The Joint Commission New Standards Tracking Dashboard 2023
- Sustaining Compliance New Standards Handout
- CMS Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN)
- Guide for Responding to Surveyors
- Responding to Surveyors PowerPoint Presentation
- Certification Survey Readiness for Staff
- Survey Plan
- The Joint Commission Accreditation Staff Overview
- PCMH Staff Overview
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Tracking Dashboard
- Accreditation and Certification Preparation Activity Guideline
Accreditation, Certification and Patient-Centered Medical Home Huddle Series:
- Review Accreditation Guide and Preparing for Continuous Readiness (plus Office Hours) (recording)
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Self-Assessment Tool (plus Office Hours) (recording)
- Preparing Survey Documentation (plus Office Hours) (recording)
- Preparing Staff for a Survey (plus Office Hours) (recording)
- Accreditation and Certification Crosswalk (plus Office Hours) (recording)
- QAPI Program Yearly Review (plus Office Hours) (recording)
- Participants' Choice (plus Office Hours) (recording)
- National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) (plus Office Hours) (recording)
Learning and Action Network:
- Strategic Planning (recording)
- Governing Body (recording)
- Preparing for the Year Ahead (recording)
The Candid Conversations is an audiocast series where we will be discussing real life examples and challenges experienced by both patients and staff in emergency care settings. As we listen to these patient stories, we will reflect on what changes could potentially lead to more positive outcomes and how we can work together to improve the patient and provider experience. Throughout the series, some of the areas we will be discussing are:
- What things contribute to the Length of stay of Emergency Department patients?
- Why are some patients leaving before they are seen by a provider?
- Are there ways to improve the triage or Medical Screening Exam times?
- The importance of timely Follow up phone calls?
- Do patients have access to appropriate levels of care?
We hope you find these conversations helpful as we work to support systems, staff, patients, and family members in understanding what each of our roles are in improving the overall experience in these healthcare settings.
Candid Conversations Episode 1: Should I Stay, Should I Go - When to Use the ED
In session 1 we will discuss a patient scenario that resulted in a patient presenting to the ED after not being able to schedule an appointment with his primary care provider. The patient eventually ends up leaving the ED after having a long wait time. Join us to hear what ideas and suggestions we come up with.
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