This guide assists healthcare professionals in having conversations about values and care preferences with patients and caregivers.
This preparedness checklist consists of several elements that are crucial for preparing long-term care facilities for COVID-19. It can be used by facility administrators; infection prevention and control focal points or staff; and internal or external professionals.
This communication toolkit contains a series of simplified messages and reminders based on the World Health Organization's technical guidance on infection prevention and control in the context of COVID-19.
This document contains a list of immunization training and educational materials, including basic and COVID-19-vaccine-specific information.
This toolkit provides a checklist on how to improve emotional wellness in 6 areas of life. The cards can be printed separately or together as a collective.
This visual and print poster details facemask "Do's and Don'ts" for healthcare personnel.
This Fact Sheet provides instructions for preparation and administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 12 years of age and older.
This document answers questions related to nursing home visitation during COVID-19, including but not limited to the steps nursing homes should take before reopening to visitors, visitation for compassionate care situations, outside visits, communal visits, and visits from the ombudsman.
This flyer offers tips for identifying and managing stress.
This flyer provides instructions on how to use V-safe, a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins after you receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
This tool has been developed to assess staff competency in carrying out effective hand hygiene.
This poster demonstrates how to thoroughly wash your hands.
Frontline healthcare personnel can use this checklist to evaluate patients for COVID-19.
This information is for hospital staff to use when discharging a patient to a nursing home.
This form is to be used by nursing home staff prior to patient transfer to the hospital.
This poster provides step-by-step instructions for healthcare workers on how to make a 0.1% chlorine mixture for disinfection.
This tool provides guidance for implementing a daily huddle.
This example inter-facility infection control patient transfer form can assist in fostering communication during transitions of care.
This guide outlines steps to safely and correctly administer an intramuscular injection, like the COVID-19, flu, pneumonia, and shingles vaccines.
This document provides answers and visual guides to Frequently Asked Questions concerning the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 Point of Care (POC) Test Result Reporting Tool.
This flyer provides messaging to encourage long term care staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
This one-pager serves as a reference for patients when discussing priorities for medical care and treatment options.
This webpage provides information on on reporting options, data collection forms, form instructions, archived and upcoming trainings on the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) COVID-19 Module.
This presentation on National Healthcare Safety Network reporting describes commonly observed reporting errors in COVID-19 counts data; provides examples of best practices in reporting COVID-19 counts in the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 module to improve data accuracy; and describes how to correct reporting errors in the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 module.
This presentation provides an overview of the National Healthcare Safety Network's new COVID-19 module for Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF); this module is part of the National Healthcare Safety Network's Long-term Care Facility Component.