Event reporting is essential to identifying, understanding, and addressing underlying factors and circumstances that contribute to medical errors. The insights gained from voluntarily reported incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions bring to light fractured processes that may otherwise be hidden.
Unfortunately, many events never get reported. Understanding the barriers to reporting and helping staff overcome them is crucial to building and maintaining a healthy reporting culture.
ADN has developed an extensive toolkit to help your facility increase event reporting so you can gain maximum visibility into opportunities to improve care outcomes.
Toolkit includes:
Guides & Checklists
- Increase Event Reporting Checklist
- Intensive Reporting Days Checklist
- eBook: A Guide to Improving Your Patient Safety Event Reporting Culture Plus a
- Leadership Action List
Tools & Templates
- Patient Safety Event Reporting Rate Calculator
- Increase Event Reporting Communication Templates for Senior Leaders
- Intensive Reporting Days Communication Templates
- GAP Analysis Template for a Patient Safety Event Reporting System
- Mini Patient Safety Culture “Pulse Check” Survey and Automated Analytics Report Toolkit
- Culture of Safety Organizational Self-Assessment Survey and Automated Analytics Report Toolkit
- Email Signature Banner to Promote Event Reporting
Posters & Tipsheets
- Event Reporting Examples Tipsheet (Acute and Clinic versions)
- Barriers to Reporting Poster
- Intensive Reporting Days Poster
- Anatomy of an Incident Poster (Acute and Clinic versions)
- Anatomy of a Near Miss Poster (Acute and Clinic versions)
- Anatomy of an Unsafe Condition Poster (Acute and Clinic versions)
- Near Misses: Engaging and Empowering Frontline Staff Poster
- Event Category Weather Forecast Poster
- Event Reporting Contest Poster
- Event Reporting Examples Poster (Acute and Clinic versions)
- General Event Reporting Promotional Posters (8.5×11 and 11×17)
