Data: Nurse judgments about safety concerns

240 nurses were recruited and completed an online survey. Demographic data included inpatient hospital nursing role, state of licensure, race and ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, previous year’s household income, most advanced academic nursing degree, years as a nurse, years working in a hospital, whether currently working in a hospital, whether currently working as a travel or contract nurse, primary type of adult inpatient practice area, and zip code of primary practice location. Nurse participants responded to three questions about each of eight factorial vignettes depicting a patient voicing a safety concern, consisting of unique combinations of eight patient and event factors (socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, gender, age, communication approach, type of event, and apparent harm). Questions about the vignettes addressed degree of report credibility, degree of nurse participant concern, and likelihood of communicating patient concern as an incident report. 234 nurses consented to sharing their survey responses.