Long-Term Care Safety Toolkit Modules
Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities
These modules (available in English and Spanish) describe how to apply the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) for long-term care resident safety. They support learning and implementation efforts to improve safety culture and practices in long-term care facilities. They provide concepts and tools that aim to change the way facilities do their work and provide care, allowing for better outcomes and higher quality of care for residents. These modules are the long-term care version of the core CUSP toolkit, which was originally developed for acute-care hospitals.
How To Use the Modules
- Your facility can use the modules to teach your team key principles that increase safety. If your facility is not familiar with the CUSP method, you may want to start with Module 1.
- The set of modules can be used to teach teams core safety principles. Also, specific modules may be used to address areas of safety culture that the facility identifies as needing improvement. One way to identify areas is to review the results from the AHRQ Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture.
- The table in these instructions can be used to identify which toolkit module corresponds to your identified areas.
- Use the Material Use Guide in each toolkit module for suggestions on how and with whom you can use the module materials.
Modules
1. Using the Comprehensive Long-Term Care Safety Tookit Modules: Applying Safety Principles
Summarizes the purpose of the toolkit and how to use it with other quality and safety tools.
Material Use Guide (Word, 2.39 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.39 MB)
PowerPoint Slide Set (PowerPoint, 2.91 MB; HTML) (en español: PowerPoint, 2.91 MB)
Facilitator Notes (Word, 2.52 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 7.43 MB)
Narrated Version of Facilitator Notes (includes audio and video)
Video clips embedded in PowerPoint slide set:
Importance of Infection Prevention
Building Safety and Quality Into the System
Transcript (en español: Word, 1.56 MB)
2. Senior Leadership Engagement
Explains what senior leadership engagement is, and the role and responsibilities of senior leaders in addressing safety goals.
Material Use Guide (Word, 1.57 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 1.57 MB)
PowerPoint Slide Set (PowerPoint, 11.98 MB; HTML) (en español: PowerPoint, 11.36 MB)
Facilitator Notes (Word, 3.02 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 4.29 MB)
Narrated Version of Facilitator Notes (includes audio and video)
Tools:
Senior Leader Checklist (Word, 2.38 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.38 MB)
Learn From Defects (Word, 2.38 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.38 MB)
Staff Safety Assessment (Word, 1.56 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 1.56 MB)
Examples of Technical and Cultural/Behavioral Solutions for Change (Word, 2.39 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.39 MB)
Video clips embedded in PowerPoint slide set:
Importance of Infection Prevention
Enabling the Team
A Collaborative Effort
An Engaged Team Effort
Transcript (en español: Word, 1.57 MB)
3. Staff Empowerment
Defines staff empowerment, discusses how it contributes to safety culture and strategies to address and overcome challenges to empowering staff.
Material Use Guide (Word, 2.39 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.39 MB)
PowerPoint Slide Set (PowerPoint, 14.55 MB; HTML) (en español: PowerPoint, 14.55 MB)
Facilitator Notes (Word, 2.78 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.79 MB)
Narrated Version of Facilitator Notes (includes audio and video)
Video clips embedded in PowerPoint slide set:
Enabling the Team
Teamwork and Support
Open Communication
Positive Reinforcement
Collaborative Trust and Confidence
Just Culture and Open Communication
Transcript (en español: Word, 1.57 MB)
4. Teamwork and Communication
Provides evidence on why teamwork and communication enhances resident safety, lists barriers, and offers solutions to overcome barriers to effective teamwork and communication.
Material Use Guide (Word, 2.39 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.39 MB)
PowerPoint Slide Set (PowerPoint, 7.48 MB; HTML) (en español: PowerPoint, 7.48 MB)
Facilitator Notes (Word, 3.13 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 16.1 MB)
Narrated Version of Facilitator Notes (includes audio and video)
Video clips embedded in PowerPoint slide set:
Staff Communication
Communication and Engaging the Family
Communication in Action
Communication Tools
Transcript (en español: Word, 1.57 MB)
5. Resident and Family Engagement
Defines resident-and family-centered care, explains why it is important to engage them and the role they play as advisers in facilities' safety teams.
Material Use Guide (Word, 2.39 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.39 MB)
PowerPoint Slide Set (PowerPoint, 7.54 MB; HTML) (en español: PowerPoint, 7.01 MB)
Facilitator Notes (Word, 3.37 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.91 MB)
Narrated Version of Facilitator Notes (includes audio and video)
Tools:
Get To Know Your Health Care Team (Word, 2.39 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.38 MB)
Resident and Family Engagement Checklist (Word, 2.38 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.38 MB)
Video clips embedded in PowerPoint slide set:
Staff Communication
Communication and Engaging the Family
Communication in Action
Communication Tools
Transcript (en español: Word, 1.57 MB)
6. Sustainability
Explains sustainability and spread, recognizes the importance of maintaining positive change, teaches how to create and implement a sustainability plan, and provides examples of successful sustainability in the long-term care setting.
Material Use Guide (Word, 1.57 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 1.57 MB)
PowerPoint Slide Set (PowerPoint, 9.11 MB; HTML) (en español: PowerPoint, 8.77 MB)
Facilitator Notes (Word, 3.02 MB; HTML) (en español: Word, 2.6 MB)
Narrated Version of Facilitator Notes (includes audio and video)
Video clips embedded in PowerPoint slide set:
A Collaborative Effort
Transcript (en español: Word, 870.1 KB)
