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COVID-19 Resources Catalog for Nursing Homes
AHRQ provided free training and mentorship to nursing homes across the country through the National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network. The Network supported the implementation of evidence-based prevention and safety practices within nursing homes to protect residents and staff from infection. AHRQ is curating resources from the Network’s curriculum and continuing to develop new resources.
The following resources catalog is a searchable database of COVID-19 nursing home safety and quality improvement resources. Use the filters on the left to view resources by topic, source, resource type, date, and audience. The Catalog is continually refined and updated as new resources become available.
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1 to 25 of 26 Resources DisplayedThis guide is designed to provide long-term care staff with basic knowledge about facility infection prevention guidelines.
This resource, designed by AHRQ, supports the use of observational audits which assist in identification of staff compliance with infection prevention practices.
This resource, designed by AHRQ, will help nursing homes get started with observational auditing, so you have useful data to guide improvement.
This resource addresses infection control and prevention in nursing homes, highlighting screening and monitoring, testing and responding, and quarantine and isolation. It also provides a sample decision tree for monitoring residents during daily encounters for signs and symptoms of COVID-19.
This infographic demonstrates how to safely put on (don) and take off (doff) COVID-19 personal protective equipment for contact and droplet precautions.
This document contains recommendations and specifications related to core components for effective infection prevention and control programs.
This is a guide for health care workers involved in patient care activities in a health care setting. It aims to show the type of personal protective equipment needed to correctly protect oneself from COVID-19.
This series of three learning modules focuses on identifying the signs and symptoms of COVID-19, knowing when and how to report signs and symptoms of COVID-19, and remembering to maintain infection prevention processes.
This preparedness checklist consists of several elements that are crucial for preparing long-term care facilities for COVID-19. It can be used by facility administrators; infection prevention and control focal points or staff; and internal or external professionals.
This communication toolkit contains a series of simplified messages and reminders based on the World Health Organization's technical guidance on infection prevention and control in the context of COVID-19.
This course provides a general introduction to Acute Respiratory Infections and basic hygiene measures to protect against infection.
This hand hygiene toolkit contains many ready-to-use practical tools which been field-tested and have yielded new, interesting data on hand hygiene practices and success factors for improvement.
The Hand Hygiene Observational Audit Tracking Tool and companion User Guide provide skilled nursing facilities an analytic tool to compile hand hygiene observational audit data to identify performance patterns and target improvement.
Nursing home leaders can reference this resource to ensure that the facility’s emergency preparedness plan is current and captures an all-hazards approach to meeting the health, safety, and security needs of staff and residents during an emergency or disaster.
Nursing home leaders can reference this resource to ensure that the facility’s emergency preparedness plan is current and captures an all-hazards approach to meeting the health, safety, and security needs of staff and residents during an emergency or disaster.
This course provides information on what facilities should be doing to be prepared to respond to a case of an emerging respiratory virus such as COVID-19, how to identify a case once it occurs, and how to properly implement infection prevention and control measures to ensure there is no further transmission to healthcare workers or to other patients in the health care facility.
This infection prevention and control course for long-term care facilities consists of four training modules that address infection prevention and control measures to support long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19.
This course consists of five sections that teach health workers how they can protect themselves and others from the occupational risks they encounter throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
This series of two learning modules features strategies to help nursing home teams minimize infection risk in their facility.
The resource provides an overview on the importance of respirator fit testing from a health safety and regulatory aspect and how often you should be fit tested.
This tool is intended for health care facilities that have either cared for or admitted COVID-19 patients. It can help determine the risk of COVID-19 virus infection of all health care workers who have been exposed to a COVID-19 patient and then provides recommendations for appropriate management of these health care workers, according to their infection risk.
This online course teaches health care workers about hand hygiene.
This website provides an evidence-based set of tools to improve communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals.
The Long-Term Care Toolkit explains the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making, and has tools to support their implementation and improve prescribing.
