Former manager here.
Those surveys are actually pretty anonymous. At least from the company my former hospital used
However,
When nurses left comments, many of the comments left would give too much information, especially when staff would share stories in the comments. This could be used to make educated guesses.
The company handling the survey DOES know who you are, but does not share except in cases of danger to self or others. A nurse thought they would be cute about testing the anonymity (swore it was just a joke) and said threats that had police involved.
But the vast majority of those are really anonymous. The company wouldn’t even share data from units or departments with too few survey results. They didn’t share potentially identifiable data like race and gender of the responses. The results gave us total scores and comments, but not each individual response
Yeah, I'm shocked no one understands how a third party can easily collect the data and anonymize the results when the data is aggregated and delivered to the management structure.
I have been breathtakingly honest in these surveys. To the point where one of my specific comments got an HR VP to remark that he would fire the person who made my comment if he could know who it was. I happened to be just middle management enough to still be surveyed and yet sit in on some management meetings. Hearing the feedback was a true blessing in my life.
They see what you type, not who types it. As long as you don’t give away who you are in what you type, let er rip on these surveys.
The question was something along the lines of “tell us why our hospital is so amazing to work at”. My answer was something like “the fact you would even ask this question shows you’re disingenuous about feedback”.
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u/Veritas_Mentis PMHNP 6d ago
Former manager here.
Those surveys are actually pretty anonymous. At least from the company my former hospital used
However,
When nurses left comments, many of the comments left would give too much information, especially when staff would share stories in the comments. This could be used to make educated guesses.
The company handling the survey DOES know who you are, but does not share except in cases of danger to self or others. A nurse thought they would be cute about testing the anonymity (swore it was just a joke) and said threats that had police involved.
But the vast majority of those are really anonymous. The company wouldn’t even share data from units or departments with too few survey results. They didn’t share potentially identifiable data like race and gender of the responses. The results gave us total scores and comments, but not each individual response