Here is the link for the survey. Please insure that its the one for the Hospital setting.
www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/index.html
Using the AHRQ SOPS Surveys webpage, provided in the topic Resources, select the SOPS survey appropriate for the practice setting in which you work. Complete the survey at your site and discuss how your facility scored. What changes would you recommend based on the survey results?
It is highly imperative that nurses understand their organizational culture, especially those domains that concern patient safety. By completing the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®), healthcare providers and other staff in a healthcare facility can gather crucial information relevant for understanding the patient safety culture in their organization (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2021). This discussion will present the SOPS Survey data for a hospital setting with recommendations regarding what the facility can do to improve patient safety.
The AHRQ SOPS scores indicate that the hospital’s culture supports patient safety. From the survey results, healthcare providers in the unit where I work engage in activities that promote patient safety. For instance, staff in the unit work effectively as a team, they work together to handle the workload, the unit constantly reviews processes to improve patient safety, members of staff learn from their colleagues’ mistakes, and the unit evaluates the proposed changes to determine their impacts on patient safety. Besides, the supervisor, manager, and clinical leader of the unit work with staff and patients to address patient safety concerns and implement interventions to improve patient safety. Effective communication among healthcare providers and between healthcare professionals and their patients helps to improve patient safety (Macías-Colorado et al., 2021). A patient safety rating of 4 out 5 is considered to be a ‘very good’ performance in relation to patient safety. The hospital’s culture encourages reporting of patient safety events and it is evident from the survey that the hospital has reported between 3 and 5 patient safety events. This indicates that the facility occasionally encounters patient safety events. It is recommended that the hospital offers continued training of staff on patient safety. This will help to minimize or prevent patient safety events and improve the patient safety rating of the hospital.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2021). SOPS surveys: What are the SOPS surveys? https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/index.html
Macías-Colorado, M. E., Rodríguez-Pérez, M., Rojas-Ocaña, M. J., & Teresa-Morales, C. (2021). Communication on safe caregiving between community nurse case managers and family caregivers. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 9(2), 205. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9020205