EXHIBIT 1.
Indicator | Percent of nurses |
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GLOBAL MEASURES | |
Quality of patient care less than excellent | 60.4 |
Unfavorable rating of their hospital (8 or less on a 10-point scale)a | 67.8 |
Would not definitely recommend their hospitala | 54.9 |
Unfavorable grade on patient safety | 29.6 |
Unfavorable grade on infection preventiona | 28.9 |
CULTURE OF PATIENT SAFETY INDICATORS | |
Staff feel like mistakes are held against them | 50.1 |
Important information is lost during shift changes | 37.3 |
Things fall between the cracks | 41.9 |
Staff do not feel free to question authority | 36.9 |
Patient safety is not a top priority of management | 21.5 |
WORK ENVIRONMENT INDICATORS AND RELATED MEASURES | |
Work environment less than excellentb | 80.7 |
Large part of shift spent on work-aroundsa | 27.1 |
Large part of shift spent on nonnursing tasksa | 30.7 |
Less than very satisfied with job | 69.4 |
High score on Maslach Burnout Inventory | 30.8 |
SOURCE Authors’ analysis of data for 2015–16 from the RN4CAST-US Nurse Survey.
NOTES Percentages are based on the responses of 12,919–13,457 staff registered nurses (RNs) in 535 hospitals, after small numbers of missing responses were deleted. Unfavorable grades of hospitals were C, D, or F.
Item included in the 2015–16 survey but not the 2005–08 survey.
Single-item measure of the work environment, where nurses were asked to rate that environment on a four-point scale (1 being poor and 4 being excellent).