PATH Resources

Increasing Patient Safety

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)

Improving Quality of Care Transitions

Effective Discharge Follow-up Emergency Departments Huddle Series:

Learning and Action Network:

Impacting Readmissions (Part 1) (recording)
Impacting Readmissions (Part 2) (recording)

Improving Behavioral Health Outcomes

Naloxone Keeps the Circle Strong: Community Resources

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!

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.

Pharmacist Start the Naloxone Conversation Script

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.