The nurse manager has to develop a patient satisfaction survey. What is one of the critical elements in selecting a patient satisfaction instrument?
a. Being able to use the same instrument for all clinical units
b. Including items that are important from the patient's perspective
c. Being able to administer the instrument before a patient's discharge from the hospital
d. Being sure that the reading level is no higher than third grade
ANS: B
Because satisfaction is a measure of service and service is a measure of perception of what matters to the patient, to measure satisfaction, surveys must include items that reflect the perspective of the patient. The quality of human contacts becomes the measure by which the consumer forms perceptions and judgments about nursing and the health agency. Consumers may not be able to evaluate the quality of interventions, but they always can evaluate the quality of the relationship with the person delivering the service.
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