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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.

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.


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.

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.


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.

Video: Environmental Hygiene—Best Practices to Use When Cleaning and Disinfecting Patient Rooms
This 10-minute video was developed to highlight key environmental cleaning best practices that should be used in all healthcare settings.

Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety
To promote stronger engagement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed a guide to help patients, families, and health professionals work together as partners to promote improvements in care.

Video: Infection Control for Healthcare Food Service
This 11-minute video covers basic practices to prevent the spread of foodborne illnesses, including proper personal hygiene and how to store, prepare, and serve food without cross-contamination.

Video: Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection (Dialysis)
This 15-minute video covers environmental cleaning and disinfection principles for cleaning dialysis stations between patient treatments and at the end of each treatment day.

Measuring Hand Hygiene Adherence: Overcoming the Challenges
Resources related to hand hygiene for health care settings.

Dialysis Safety Resource Center
To help prevent infections in dialysis patients and increase the use of proven practices that cut infection rates in half, the Making Dialysis Safer for Patients Coalition has created the posters, checklists and fact sheets for use in provider’s offices, dialysis clinics, training sessions, and work areas.

Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Infection Prevention and Control Toolkit
This toolkit was developed by OPSC to help Oregon’s ASCs implement infection prevention quality improvement projects, reduce infection risks, and better protect patients.

Video: Clostridium Difficile Training for Environmental Cleaning Staff
This 14-minute video from Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) and Oregon Health Authority (OHA) provides basic infection prevention and control training for staff who clean and disinfect the environment and equipment for patients and/or residents who have Clostridium difficile infections.

Always Use Teach-Back! Training Toolkit
The Always Use Teach Back! tools can be used to confirm patient understanding of care instructions by asking patients to repeat the instructions using their own words.

Patient Safety Network (PSNet)
AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network features a collection of the latest news and resources on patient safety, innovations and toolkits, opportunities for free CME and trainings.

Video: Best Practices for Blood Glucose Monitoring
This 10-minute video from Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) and the Oregon Healthcare-Associated Infection Program at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) provides best practices that can be implemented in any healthcare setting to prevent infection during blood glucose monitoring and insulin administration.
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