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Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for the SOPS Nursing Home Survey

The 大象APPSurveys on Patient Safety Culture庐 (厂翱笔厂庐) Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for nursing homes were designed for use with the core SOPS Nursing Home Survey to help nursing homes assess the extent to which their organization's culture supports workplace safety for staff. The 23 supplemental items may be added to the end of the Nursing Home Survey, just before the Background Questions.

Supplemental Items

  • Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for the Nursing Home Survey鈥擡nglish (Word, 87 KB; PDF, 287 KB)
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Measures Covered by the Workplace Safety Items

 

Image shows the Measures Covered by the SOPS Nursing Home Workplace Safety Supplemental Items. A composite measure is a grouping of two or more survey items that assess the same area of culture. The 6 composite measures and 18 survey items assessed in the SOPS Nursing Home Workplace Safety Supplemental Items are: Protecting From Workplace Hazards (4 items) Moving, Transferring, or Lifting Residents (3 items) Addressing Inappropriate Resident Behavior Toward Staff (3 items) Interactions Among Staff (2 items) Supervisor Support for Workplace Safety (3 items) Management Support for Workplace Safety (3 items) Single Item Measures: In addition to the composite measures, there are 5 single item measures included that assess: Workplace Safety Reporting (1 item) Work Stress/Burnout (1 item) Overall Rating on Workplace Safety for Staff (1 item) Background Questions (2 items).

 

* The Work Stress/Burnout item was adapted from .

Administration Instructions

Instructions on how to administer the SOPS supplemental items can be found at Supplemental Items.

SOPS Nursing Home Workplace Safety Supplemental Items Results

Resources

Nursing homes can use these resources to implement changes to improve the culture of workplace safety in their organizations.

New 大象APPSOPS Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Nursing Homes webcast鈥擩anuary 24, 2023.

New 大象APP厂翱笔厂庐 Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Nursing Homes (1:00:43)

Technical Assistance

Page last reviewed June 2025
Page originally created April 2022

Internet Citation: Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for the SOPS Nursing Home Survey. Content last reviewed June 2025. 大象APP, Rockville, MD.
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