2012 User Comparative Database Report

This chapter describes respondents within the participating hospitals. The data presented here are based on respondents' answers to survey questions about the hospital work area/unit where they spent most of their work time, their staff position, and their direct interaction with patients.

Highlights

• There were 567,703 hospital staff respondents from 1,128 hospitals.
• The top three work areas of respondents were:
  • Other (30 percent).
  • Medicine (12 percent).
  • Surgery (10 percent).
• The top three staff positions of respondents were:
  • Registered nurse or licensed vocational nurse/licensed practical nurse (35 percent).
  • Other (21 percent).
  • Technician (e.g., EKG, Lab, Radiology) (11 percent).
• Most respondents (76 percent) indicated they had direct interaction with patients.

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Work Area/Unit 

Close to one-third of respondents (30 percent) selected "Other" as their work area, followed by "Medicine" (12 percent), and "Surgery" (10 percent) (Table 4-1). The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture uses generic categories for hospital work areas and units. Therefore, a large percentage of respondents chose the "Other" response option, which allowed them to note their specific work area or unit. Participating hospitals were not asked to submit written or "other-specify" responses for any questions, so no data are available to further describe the respondents in the "Other" work area category.

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Staff Position 

More than one-third of respondents (35 percent) selected "Registered Nurse" or "Licensed Vocational Nurse/Licensed Practical Nurse (LVN/LPN)" as their staff position, followed by "Other" (21 percent) and "Technician (e.g., EKG, Lab, Radiology)" (11 percent), as shown in (Table 4-2). As with the work area/unit question, many respondents chose the "Other" response option, which allowed them to note their specific staff position, but no data are available to further describe the respondents in the "Other" staff position category.

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Interaction With Patients 

As shown in Table 4-3, most respondents (76 percent) indicated they had direct interaction with patients.

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