Tools and guidance

Tools and guidance to help prepare for improving your system

Use the following tools and guidance to help you prepare for and implement improvements to your recognition and response systems.

Preparation guidance and tools

• Preparation and implementation guide
• Recognition and response system summary
• Project charter template
• Stakeholder assessment template
• Example policy
• Clinical governance recommendations
• Escalation mapping tool
• Vital signs chart user guide 
• Vital signs chart with New Zealand early warning score
• Recognition and response systems save lives (infographic)
• Capabilities for recognising and responding to acute deterioration in hospital (factsheet)
• Patient deterioration and sepsis (factsheet)
• Patient deterioration and recognition and response systems: A factsheet for hospital executives
• Patient deterioration and recognition and response systems: A factsheet for senior clinicians
• Countdown to launch posters

Early Warning System e-learning modules

• Adult Early Warning System
• Maternity Early Warning System  
• Paediatric Early Warning System 

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Measurement guidance and tools

• Audit form
• Patient deterioration data collection tool
• Post event case review tool
• Escalation sticker
• Rapid response call sticker
• Measurement guidance