Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; February 2016.

Challenges to establishing and sustaining a safety culture in a nursing home include insufficient staffing and a tendency to blame individuals for problems. This website hosts theAHRQ survey for nursing homes along with additional materials to assist organizations in using the management tool effectively. It includes a user's guide that discusses how to conduct a survey on patient safety in a nursing home and report the results. The resource provides guidance on topics such as data collection, data organization, survey forms, and nursing home staff selection. The deadline for submitting data to the latest survey is April 21, 2016.