Best Practices

A essential component of a collaborative is sharing of best practices. Broadly organized by category below, you will find best practices, tips & tricks and examples shared by our teams.

Staff Turnover PDSA Cycles & Change Strategies Disaster Preparedness Data Entry Staff Education & Buy-In

New Team Member

Olivia Kaullen, MHA, RRT, RRT-NPS, from MOKAN Rocks shares helpful tips on staff turnover and onboarding a new team member in this helpful document.

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New Member Checklist

Click here to download our PRQC Getting Started Checklist. This and other getting-started resources can be found on our New-Member corner.

SBAR Chart

Heather Andersen of Providence Alaska Medical Center (Team: The Last Frontier Kids), created this SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Request) chart to educate their ED about their first PDSA cycle.

Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Toolkit

This EMSC toolkit provides resources for providers and parents including articles, example practices and helpful links. Click here to review

American Academy of Pediatrics: Children & Disasters

This link will take you to the AAP resources for meeting the needs of children in a disaster.

ASPR TRACIE Topical Collection: Pediatric/Children

This Topic Collectioncontains resources relevant to general pediatric disaster planning. ASPR TRACIE has developed several additional Topic Collections with pediatric sub-categories such as family reunification, hospital victim decontamination, and mental/behavioral health.

Hospital Emergency Response Team (HERT)

Oscar Enriquez, EMT, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator from Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin, TX generously shared the tools and templates that he discussed during the June Fireside Chat.

HERT Participation Form

HERT Medical Screening Form

HERT Member Master File

HERT Daily Assignment Board

DECON Action Chart

DECON Room Process