Effectively implementing cross-cutting strategies can accelerate your improvement efforts. This includes the engagement of residents and their family members as active partners throughout the change process. Resident and family engagement strategies will help your nursing home establish and sustain vital partnerships and help educate staff on how to develop and sustain these efforts in your improvement work. 

Health Quality Innovator’s Daily Strategies for Use During Nursing Home Stand-Up Meetings resource is a 9-week education series tailored for nursing home stand-up meetings. Each week of the series contains five short, concentrated evidence-based talking points for use in daily stand-up meetings on a variety of topics, including strategies to reduce healthcare acquired infections.

This is a downloadable, printable, trifold, provided by Sepsis Alliance, intended for public, patient, caregiver education on 'Sepsis As You Age'. The trifold provides an overview of the burden of sepsis, spotting an infection, why sepsis in older people is serious, treatment, and prevention information. 

Sepsis can and does affect people of all ages. However, more than 80% of sepsis cases occur among people aged 50 years and older. This 'Sepsis and Aging' information guide, provided by Sepsis Alliance, provides an overview of what sepsis is, how sepsis occurs, why it's so serious, how it can be prevented and treated. 

When the Faces of Sepsis section of the Sepsis Alliance site was established, they received hundreds of stories from family members who were unexpectedly placed in the position of giving care to a survivor who was left with long-lasting and life-altering complications from sepsis or septic shock. It became increasingly clear that these caregivers felt alone, without support. To address this, the Sepsis Alliance team put together a caregiver guidebook.

This educational content, provided by Sepsis Alliance, is a one-page document providing an overview of critical sepsis facts, who gets sepsis, what causes it, what are the symptoms, can it be prevented.

This is a downloadable, printable, information guide, provided by Sepsis Alliance, in Spanish intended for public, patient, caregiver education on 'Sepsis and Bacterial Infections'. The information guide provides an overview of the bacterial infections and sepsis.

A healthcare-acquired infection (HAI) is an infection that is contracted while you are in a healthcare facility, such as an acute care hospital or a skilled nursing care facility. This information guide, provided by Sepsis Alliance, reviews key about healthcare-acquired infections, prevention, and how any infections can lead to sepsis.