Table.
NASUS Scale: Statistics
| Item | Question | Median (IQR) | Item-Total Correlation |
Cronbach’s Alpha if item was deleted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skill subscale | 62 (52, 73) | Cronbach’s ∞= .73 | ||
|
Skill subscale: Choose the number that corresponds to your level of comfort with the following: | ||||
| 1 | Accurately completing an incident report |
83 (65, 96) | .43 | .68 |
| 2 | Analyzing a case to find the cause of an error |
75 (53, 90) | .63 | .67 |
| 3 | Supporting and advising a peer who must decide how to respond to an error |
78 (65, 90) | .59 | .66 |
| 4 | Disclosing an error to a manager or supervisor |
32 (10, 65) | −.23 | .72 |
| 5 | Disclosing an error to another healthcare professional |
75 (51, 90) | .38 | .68 |
| 23 | Interpreting aggregate error report data |
50 (26, 66) | .54 | .69 |
| 24 | Participating as a team in a root cause analysis |
57 (38, 77) | .60 | .68 |
| Attitude subscale | 68 (62,74) | Cronbach’s ∞= .66 | ||
|
Attitude subscale: Choose the number that corresponds to your level of agreement with the following statements: | ||||
| 6 | Making errors in healthcare is inevitable |
63 (38, 80) | .14 | .70 |
| 7 | Competent healthcare professionals do not make errors that lead to patient harm |
69 (50, 85) | .19 | 69 |
| 8 | Healthcare professionals should routinely spend part of their professional time working to improve patient care |
86 (68, 100) | .49 | 67 |
| 9 | The culture of healthcare makes it easy for healthcare professionals to deal constructively with errors |
42 (27, 66) | .07 | 70 |
| 10 | Healthcare professionals routinely share information about medical errors and what caused them |
86 (72, 100) | .53 | 67 |
| 11 | Healthcare professionals routinely report errors |
50 (32, 78) | .13 | .69 |
| 12 | Reporting systems do little to reduce future errors |
67 (49, 85) | .18 | .69 |
| 13 | Physicians should be the healthcare professionals that report errors to an affected patient and family |
50 (21, 65) | −.15 | .72 |
| 14 | After an error occurs, an effective strategy is to work harder to be more careful |
38 (19, 61) | .11 | .72 |
| 15 | There is a gap between what we know as “best care” and what we provide on a day-to-day basis |
63 (33, 77) | .01 | .72 |
| 16 | Learning how to improve patient safety is an appropriate use of time in my practice |
89 (73, 100) | .51 | .68 |
| 17 | If there is no harm to a patient, there is no need to address an error |
94 (78, 100) | .49 | .67 |
| 18 | If I saw a colleague make an error, I would keep it to myself |
85 (70, 99) | .43 | .67 |
| 19 | Most errors are due to things that healthcare professionals can’t do anything about |
85 (69, 96) | .39 | .68 |
| 20 | I have effective strategies in my practice to reduce my reliance on memory |
74 (61, 86) | .32 | .68 |
| 21 | Standardized medication administration practices improve patient safety outcomes |
86 (71,98) | .47 | .68 |
| 22 | Standardized medication administration practices get in the way of my nursing practice |
80 (62, 95) | .35 | .69 |
| Total NASUS Scale | 66 (60, 72) | Cronbach’s ∞ = .73 | ||
Nurses’ Attitudes and Skills around Updated Safety Concepts (NASUS) Scale