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COVID-19 Resources Catalog for Nursing Homes
AHRQ provided free training and mentorship to nursing homes across the country through the National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network. The Network supported the implementation of evidence-based prevention and safety practices within nursing homes to protect residents and staff from infection. AHRQ is curating resources from the Network’s curriculum and continuing to develop new resources.
The following resources catalog is a searchable database of COVID-19 nursing home safety and quality improvement resources. Use the filters on the left to view resources by topic, source, resource type, date, and audience. The Catalog is continually refined and updated as new resources become available.
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1 to 19 of 19 Resources DisplayedThis resource addresses infection control and prevention in nursing homes, highlighting screening and monitoring, testing and responding, and quarantine and isolation. It also provides a sample decision tree for monitoring residents during daily encounters for signs and symptoms of COVID-19.
This website provides resources, including COVID-19 public health emergency response information, for nursing home staff and leadership.
This infographic demonstrates how to safely put on (don) and take off (doff) COVID-19 personal protective equipment for contact and droplet precautions.
This is a guide for health care workers involved in patient care activities in a health care setting. It aims to show the type of personal protective equipment needed to correctly protect oneself from COVID-19.
This series of three learning modules focuses on identifying the signs and symptoms of COVID-19, knowing when and how to report signs and symptoms of COVID-19, and remembering to maintain infection prevention processes.
This resource is intended for nursing home staff to put the latest information regarding infection control, COVID-19 preparedness, resident-centered care, vaccine distribution and other important topics into practice. The User Guide and Kudos Kit were designed to help nursing home teams access the free, on-demand trainings and celebrate the staff who complete them.
In this video, environmental product consultant Karl Seagren covers best practices for cleaning and disinfecting hard surfaces and high touch areas to keep residents, staff, and guests healthy.
This training is intended to prepare facilities to develop, manage, and maintain a surge plan.
Nursing home leaders can reference this resource to ensure that the facility’s emergency preparedness plan is current and captures an all-hazards approach to meeting the health, safety, and security needs of staff and residents during an emergency or disaster.
Nursing home leaders can reference this resource to ensure that the facility’s emergency preparedness plan is current and captures an all-hazards approach to meeting the health, safety, and security needs of staff and residents during an emergency or disaster.
This course provides information on what facilities should be doing to be prepared to respond to a case of an emerging respiratory virus such as COVID-19, how to identify a case once it occurs, and how to properly implement infection prevention and control measures to ensure there is no further transmission to healthcare workers or to other patients in the health care facility.
This educational series includes seven action briefs that focus on five key areas in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This page displays national and state-level data on COVID-19 cases and deaths among residents and staff of nursing homes. These summaries use data that nursing homes submitted to the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 module.
This course consists of five sections that teach health workers how they can protect themselves and others from the occupational risks they encounter throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
This online course teaches health care workers about hand hygiene.
These documents provide guidance for surveyors of long-term care facilities.
In the event of an infectious disease outbreak, local officials may require the public to take measures to limit and control the spread of the disease. This tip sheet provides information about social distancing, quarantine, and isolation.
This series of two learning modules focuses on considerations for when to test residents for COVID-19 and how the COVID-19 vaccine can protect nursing home staff and residents. The modules are about 5 minutes long.
