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Environment of Care Inpatient Checklist

by Anne Steele, from the Community

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This inpatient Environment of Care checklist supports hospital teams in auditing corridors, utility rooms, medication rooms, kitchens, and patient care areas for safety, cleanliness, and regulatory compliance. It covers fire safety and egress, equipment and power management, infection prevention, oxygen storage, refrigeration and temperature logs, medication security and labeling, linen handling, and eyewash stations. Sections also include staff interviews on SDS access, emergency preparedness, hand hygiene, disinfectant contact times, and psychiatric-unit specific controls.

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Environment of Care Checklist
This Environment of Care checklist supports hospital teams in assessing safety and compliance across patient care areas. It covers corridors and egress, life safety systems and fire equipment, glucometer hygiene, crash cart readiness, and equipment warmers with documented temperature ranges. Inspect clean and dirty utility rooms, storage practices, oxygen cylinder handling, and nutrition room logs. Review medication room security, labeling, and cold-chain monitoring. Verify eyewash stations, infection control practices, hand hygiene, isolation signage, and biohazard labeling. Includes staff competency checks, preventative maintenance tags, alarm response, and protection of patient information.
by Nicole Tietz, from the Community
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Environment of Care Checklist for Inpatient Units
This inpatient environment of care checklist helps hospitals and behavioral health units assess safety, cleanliness, and compliance across entry and lobby areas, exam rooms, patient rooms, bathrooms, seclusion and restraint rooms, kitchens, laundry, storage, utilities, and exterior spaces. Use it to verify equipment inspections, temperature logs, secure areas, hazardous waste handling, and overall facility conditions.
by Shannon Seifreit, from the Community
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Monthly EOC Infection Control Rounds Checklist
Use this monthly Environment of Care infection control rounds checklist to audit emergency rooms, inpatient rooms, public restrooms, isolation areas, clinics, storage and utility rooms, and common areas. Verify availability of PPE, hand hygiene supplies, equipment cleanliness, linen handling, waste management, refrigerator temperatures, medication storage, signage, and survey readiness tasks. Support consistent rounding, document corrective actions, and improve hospital infection prevention and compliance.
by Christina Pate, from the Community
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Inpatient Leadership Rounds Checklist
This inpatient leadership rounds checklist helps hospital leaders structure and document rounding on inpatient units. It covers security and safety checks, fire safety readiness, hazardous materials and waste handling, infection prevention and control standards, medical equipment maintenance, and emergency procedures. Clinical care observations include central line and urinary catheter care, ventilator care, falls risk, pressure injury prevention, and restraint documentation. Use this template to record findings, engage staff and patients, assign and track corrective actions, and demonstrate compliance with hospital policies and patient safety goals. Adapt sections to your unit and schedule regular reviews to drive continuous improvement.
by Alyson Estwick Morris, from the Community
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