Set up a Microsoft Viva Glint Patient Safety Survey

Many healthcare customers use the Viva Glint Patient Safety Survey to assess and improve their patient safety culture. It is approved as a reliable measure of patient culture by Leapfrog's expert panel and is among the most succinct Leapfrog-approved safety surveys currently available. Seamlessly integrated with Viva Glint, patient safety survey insights are designed to provide healthcare leaders with pertinent information in real-time.

Submitting the Patient Safety Survey for Leapfrog certification

To submit the survey to Leapfrog for certification, it must include the 16 Leapfrog approved items in this exact order:

  1. Modeling
  2. Communication
  3. Root Cause
  4. Learn From Mistakes
  5. Change Willingness
  6. Just Response
  7. Exchange
  8. Resources
  9. Training
  10. Teamwork
  11. Ownership
  12. Voice
  13. Psychological Safety
  14. Recognition
  15. Safety Habits
  16. Safety Referral

There are also two optional but recommended scaled items (1-2), and two comment items (3-4) which can be included:

  1. Employee Safety
  2. eSat
  3. Safety - Start Doing
  4. Safety - Stop Doing

Note

The overall patient safety outcome items, Referral and Habits, are now at the end of the survey; previously they were the first items asked.

Viva People Science methodology for the Patient Safety Survey

The methodology used to develop the Microsoft Viva Glint Patient Safety Survey involved lengthy research and methodology. Read about it.

Read the Viva People Science blog on patient safety culture

Many healthcare customers have moved to the Viva Glint patient safety survey to help assess and improve their patient safety culture. Viva Glint Principal People Scientist, Ryan Lebow, provides a datasheet on using the Microsoft Viva Glint patient safety survey to help improve patient safety culture.

Viva Glint Patient Safety Survey items

Item # Item name Item text
1 Safety - Start Doing What should we start doing (or do more of) to make our culture here safer?
2 Safety - Stop Doing What should we stop doing to make our culture here safer?
3 Safety Referral I would recommend this organization to family and friends as a safe place to receive care.
4 Psychological Safety I can speak up about patient safety without fear of retaliation.
5 Safety Habits Ensuring patient safety is part of the way we do things around here.
6 Change Willingness Actions taken based on safety event reporting led to positive changes here.
7 Communication There is good communication between leaders and employees here about patient safety.
8 Exchange The exchange of information between departments occurs smoothly.
9 Just Response There is a just process for handling safety-related errors here.
10 Learning from Mistakes We discuss ways to prevent safety errors from happening again.
11 Modeling Leadership's actions show that patient safety is a top priority.
12 Ownership I feel empowered to correct potential safety hazards.
13 Recognition Employees who prioritize patient safety are appreciated here.
14 Resources We have the resources we need to keep patients safe.
15 Root Cause At this organization, we seek to solve problems permanently rather than just up with a 'quick fix.'
16 Teamwork We support each other in caring for patients safely here.
17 Training The patient safety-related training I receive is effective.
18 Voice My imput about patient safety is valued here.
19 Employee Safety I feel safe here as an employee.
20 eSat How happy are you working at [Company Name]?

Admins launching the Microsoft Viva Glint Patient Safety Survey

Access the template from the Configure symbol on your Viva Glint admin dashboard. Select + New Survey and then the Patient Safety Survey card.

Screenshot of the Patient Safety survey template, which is predefined but easy to customize.