Survey items of the Speaking Up about Patient Safety Questionnaire
Over the last 4 weeks, how often…
Withholding voice
Did you choose not to bring up your specific concerns about patient safety?
Did you keep ideas for improving patient safety in your unit to yourself?
Did you remain silent when you had information that might have prevented a safety incident in your unit?
Did you not address a colleague (doctors and/or nurses) if he/she didn’t follow important patient safety rules, intentionally or unintentionally?
Speak Up-Related Climate
I can rely on my colleagues (doctors and/or nurses), whenever I encounter difficulties in my work.
I can rely on the shift supervisor (person in charge of a shift) whenever I encounter difficulties in my work.
The culture in my unit/clinical area makes it easy to speak up about patient safety concerns.
My colleagues (doctors and/or nurses) react appropriately, when I speak up about my concerns about patient safety.
In my unit/clinical area, I observe others speaking up about their patient safety concerns.
I am encouraged by my colleagues (doctors and/or nurses) to speak up about patient safety concerns.
I am encouraged by my shift supervisor (person in charge during a shift) to speak up about patient safety concerns.
When I have patient safety concerns it is difficult to bring them up
Having to remind staff of the same safety rules again and again is frustrating.
Sometimes I become discouraged because nothing changes after expressing my patient safety concerns.