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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/curriculum/teamstepps-module-2-slides.pptx
June 02, 2025 - TeamSTEPPS Team Leadership Module 2
Team Leadership
Module 2
1
Understanding Teams and Team Structure
2
Objectives: Team Structure
Team Leadership
Understand the benefits of teamwork and clear team structure.
Define a “team.”
Identify the roles of patients and family caregivers within the care team.
Desc…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/curriculum/teamstepps-module-4-slides.pptx
June 02, 2025 - TeamSTEPPS Mutual Support Module 4
Mutual Support
Module 4
1
Objectives
Mutual Support
Describe how mutual support affects team processes and outcomes.
Discuss specific strategies to foster mutual support (e.g., task assistance, feedback).
Identify specific tools to facilitate mutual support.
Describe conflic…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/curriculum/teamstepps-module-3-slides.pptx
June 02, 2025 - TeamSTEPPS Situation Monitoring Module 3
Situation Monitoring
Module 3
1
Situation Monitoring Exercise:
Rebuild Your Tower
Situation Monitoring
Rules:
Same goals and rules as the earlier tower building exercise except one BIG change:
The Color Guide cannot speak or write the name of any color.
The Length Guide…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/learndefects.doc
June 02, 2025 - Learn From Defects Tool
Problem statement: Health care organizations can increase the extent to which they learn from defects. We define this learning as reducing the probability that a future patient will be harmed. Most often clinicians recover from mistakes by reducing risks to the patient who suffered a defect.
Wh…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/bckgrndqiteam.doc
June 02, 2025 - Background Quality Improvement Team Information Form
Who should use this tool? Health care providers.
Please indicate people designated as Quality Improvement Team Members. Your team may not have people who serve in all of these roles.
These individuals from are members of the Qual…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/boardchecklist.doc
June 02, 2025 - Checklist Items
Leader Responsible
Date
Initiated
1. Set an organization aim of annually assessing the safety and teamwork climate.
2. Improve the safety and teamwork climate using valid measures.
3. Set expectation for unit-level culture assessment.
4. Require at least a 60 percent participation…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/infectionprevchcklst.doc
June 02, 2025 - Infection Preventionist Checklist
Who should use this tool? Infection preventionists.
Checklist Items
Leader Responsible
Date
Started
1. Meet with the CEO and hospital project leader to learn about the initiative and understand the infection prevention (IP) roles.
2. Introduce the project to all IP s…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/teamcheckup.doc
June 02, 2025 - Team Check-up Tool
Purpose of the tool: This tool helps assess unit strengths and opportunities for improving unit processes and upgrading unit safety culture.
Who should use this tool? Health care providers.
Directions: Your team should collectively complete one Team Check-up Tool every month and submit it to the proj…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/ceosnrleaderchcklst.docx
June 02, 2025 - CEO/Senior Leader Checklist
Who should use this tool? Senior leaders.
Checklist Items
Leader Responsible
Date
Initiated
1. Ensure all current and new employees receive Science of Safety training.
2. Assign a senior executive (Chief Executive Officer or another leader) as an active member of each
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/staffsafetyassess.doc
June 02, 2025 - Staff Safety Assessment
Purpose of this form: This form is designed to tap into your experience at the front line of patient care to determine what risks are present in your unit that have jeopardized or could jeopardize patient safety.
Who should us this tool? Health care providers.
How to complete this form: Provi…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/shadowing.doc
June 02, 2025 - Shadowing Another Professional Tool
Problem Statement: Health care delivery is a multidisciplinary practice that requires coordination of care among different professions and provider types. However, health care providers often do not understand other disciplines’ daily responsibilities, teamwork, and communication iss…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/safetysnrchklst.doc
June 02, 2025 - Safety Issues Worksheet for Senior Executive Partnership
Who should use this tool? Health care providers and the senior leader.
Date of safety rounds:___________
Unit:______________________
Attendees:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Identified Issues
Potential/Recommended Solutions
Resources Needed
1.
2…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/obsrounds.doc
June 02, 2025 - Observing Patient Care Rounds
Problem statement: Interdisciplinary rounds are in the best interest of patients. Poor communication among staff is a root cause of many patient adverse and sentinel events. Communication among disciplines can be improved if viewed through the eyes of an objective observer.
What are obser…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/morningbriefing.doc
June 02, 2025 - Conducting a Morning Briefing
Problem statement: Physicians can improve communication with nursing staff while more efficiently prioritizing patient care delivery and admissions and discharges.
What is a Morning Briefing? A morning briefing is a dialogue between two or more people using concise and relevant informati…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/clabsitools/clabsitoolsap1.pptx
June 02, 2025 - Slide 1
It has been
weeks since our unit’s last central line-associated blood stream infection
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Remember good
cathe…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/clabsitools/clabsitoolsap5.doc
June 02, 2025 - Central Line Insertion Care Team Checklist
Patient Name: ______________________________ Hx#:____________ Unit: ____________ Date/Time:____________
A minimum of 5 supervised successful procedures in both the chest and femoral sites is required (10 total). If a physician successfully performs 5 supervised lines in one…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/clabsitools/clabsitoolsap4.doc
June 02, 2025 - Central Line Cart Inventory
Drawer 1
Guidewires
· J-wires: 5
· A line wires: 5
· Scalpels: 10
Sterile scissors
· Small: 3
· Regular: 3
Sorbaview
· 10 large
· 10 small
· Chlorhexadine: 5 preps
Tape
· 1 inch: 2 each
· 2 inch: 2 each
· 10 cc syringes: 10
· Cordis caps (SLIC): 5
· Sleeves: 5
Drawer …
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June 02, 2025 - Dear [NURSES NAMES]--
CLABSI Investigation Nurse Letter
(Date)
Dear ____________,
As part of our commitment to eradicate central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs), we are performing a root cause analysis of all CLABSIs. Patient _______________ met the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention c…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/clabsitools/clabsitoolsap7.doc
June 02, 2025 - CVC Insertion Risk Factors:
Central Venous Catheter-Associated Laboratory-Confirmed
Blood Stream Infection Event Report Template for Defect Analysis
Patient:
MR No:
Admit Date:
Diagnosis:
Infection Date:
Criteria: Organism:
CVC Insertion Info
Date:
Type:
Location:
Who Inserted:
Insertion …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/clabsitools/clabsitoolsap8.doc
June 02, 2025 - Dear [NURSES NAMES]--
CLABSI Investigation Nurse Letter
(Date)
Dear ____________,
As part of our commitment to eradicate central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs), we are performing a root cause analysis of all CLABSIs. Patient _______________ met the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention c…
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