This table can be used to identify possible change ideas to help you embed PFE strategies into your Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury (HAPI) prevention efforts. The examples below are designed to assist you in addressing the goals for each of the five PFE metrics while focusing on specific topic areas of the HAPI prevention bundle.
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Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury (HAPI) Resources
Resource Topics Include:
- Preoperative Pressure Injury
- Staff Skill Building
- Support Surfaces
- Patient Education
- Guidance Documents
- Preventing & Managing MASD & IAD
WHITE PAPER: “Conversation Ready”: A Framework for Improving End-of-Life Care (2nd Edition)
The resilience of the human body and spirit, the science of modern health care, and the efforts of health care professionals have resulted in a larger number of patients living with increasingly complex illnesses for longer periods of time. As the number of seriously ill patients has risen, so too has the scrutiny of end-of-life care. Stories about poor end-of-life care have become unfortunately familiar to health care professionals, patients, and families. Beyond its effects on patients, poor end-of-life care can have negative impacts on the bereaved family, the involved health care professionals, and, more broadly, society when such care leads to distrust of the health care system and rising costs.
CDC Workplace Health Wellness Resource Center
What is Total Worker Health? Most employers want to keep their workers safe and healthy at work. However, they may not see how the job itself—the
characteristics of the work, how it is designed and completed each day–can also play an important part in their workers’ health, well-being, and performance. In 2011, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the Total Worker Health (TWH) program to explore how work
can be better designed to both protect workers from harm on the job and enhance their overall health and well-being. CDC defines Total Worker Health as “policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness prevention efforts to advance worker well-being.”1
Program Measurement & Evaluation Guide: Core Metrics for Employee Health Management
The Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) and Population Health Alliance (PHA) are pleased to present (herein referred to as “Guide”),a core set of metrics for the evaluation of employee health management programs. After two years and countless hours of research and discussions by more than 60 members of both organizations and many outside experts, HERO and PHA are responding to employers who seek a greater level of clarity regarding the value of their wellness efforts. Thus, we recommend an initial set of measures to assess the impact of the health management programs offered to employees. The results are better informed business decisions and boardroom discussions.
What is Wellness?
Wellness is the active pursuit to understand and fulfill your individual human needs—which allows you to reach a state where you are flourishing and able to realize your full potential in all aspects of life. Every person has wellness aspirations.
Successful workplace wellness initiatives require supporting employees in fulfilling their needs in seven areas.
Creating a Workplace Wellness Committee – A Toolkit for Employers
By choosing to implement a Workplace Wellness Program you are making a smart investment in the health and productivity of your people and your organization. This toolkit will help you get started by providing step-by-step instructions on how to create one of the most important elements of your program: the Workplace Wellness Committee.
Inside the toolkit you’ll find helpful tips, tools and resources you can use to recruit, organize and manage an effective in-house Wellness Committee that drives results.
How to Protect Your Best Asset: The Caregivers
When was your last ophthalmology visit? For some healthcare leaders, it’s time to correct their tunnel vision when it comes to patient satisfaction metrics and data.
You can improve the patient experience by investing in employees
Employees who use their strengths provide a better patient experience
The right metrics help you monitor and measure employee needs
Current Practices in Worksite Wellness Initiatives
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
supports efforts nationwide to reduce the risk factors
associated with childhood and adult obesity, diabetes, heart
disease, and stroke through its State Public Health Actions
to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and
Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health (State
Public Health Actions) program. Through a federal grant, all
50 states and the District of Columbia receive funds to help
prevent these chronic diseases.
This program focuses on healthy environments in workplaces,
schools, early childhood education facilities, and the
community. It also focuses on working through health
systems and communities to reduce complications from
multiple chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease,
and stroke. The goal is to make healthy living easier for all
Americans.
Human Trafficking Response: Resources for Health Care Professionals
The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative joins the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC) and HEAL Trafficking to provide key resources and information on how hospitals and health systems can combat human trafficking in their communities.