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Leadership Rounds Checklist

by Ericka Thompson, from the Community

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This leadership rounds checklist helps healthcare leaders conduct effective unit walkarounds that strengthen safety, quality, and staff engagement. It covers surveillance rounds and checks across security, safety, fire safety, hazardous materials and waste, infection prevention and control, medical equipment, and emergency management. Quality prompts verify policy access and understanding. Patient care observations include central lines, urinary catheters, ventilators, falls risk, pressure injury risk (HAPI/CAPI), and restraints, supporting consistent, compliant practice.

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Hospital Leadership Rounds Checklist
This hospital leadership rounds checklist helps leaders conduct consistent walkthroughs across units. It covers security and safety checks, fire safety, hazardous materials and waste, infection prevention and control, medical equipment status, emergency procedures, and quality practices. Sections include observations for central lines, urinary catheters, ventilators, falls risk, pressure injury prevention, and restraint documentation. Use it to verify compliance, identify risks, and capture corrective actions during purposeful rounding.
by Alyson Estwick Morris, 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.
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Inpatient Leadership Rounds Checklist for Managers
Streamline hospital leadership rounds with this comprehensive inpatient checklist for managers and supervisors. Verify security, safety, fire safety, hazardous materials, infection prevention and control, medical equipment, emergency preparedness, quality practices, and patient risk reviews for falls, pressure injuries, and catheter-associated infections. Use it to confirm logs, maintenance, labeling, hand hygiene, PPE, evacuation routes, oxygen handling, crash cart checks, and staff knowledge of policies and codes. Ideal for standardizing rounds, improving compliance, and enhancing patient safety.
by Alyson Estwick Morris, from the Community
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Hospital Safety Rounds Checklist
This hospital safety rounds checklist helps teams conduct consistent environment of care inspections across units. Review fire prevention, security management, safety management, utilities, clinical equipment, hazardous materials handling, infection control, and waste management. Verify items such as exit signage, fire extinguishers, medical gas storage, corridor clearance, electrical safety, hand hygiene, isolation precautions, sharps disposal, and proper waste segregation. Capture findings, assign follow up to managers or facilities, and track corrective actions to improve patient and staff safety.
by Syed Adnan Ali, from the Community
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Leadership Rounds Checklist

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