Patient survey about communication with nurses

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Want to generate a high-quality Patient Communication With Nurses survey in seconds? With Specific's AI survey generator, you can do it right here—just click the button, and you're ready to go. No hassle—just faster, smarter surveys built for real insights.

Why Patient Communication With Nurses surveys matter

Getting honest, detailed feedback from patients on how nurses communicate is not just a box to tick—it's the key to elevating quality of care, safety, and patient satisfaction. If you’re not running these surveys, you’re missing valuable signals that can improve your hospital or clinic’s performance and patient outcomes.

  • Identify communication gaps: Research shows only 41.9% of patients in a recent study reported a good perception of nurses' communication, underscoring the critical need for direct feedback to pinpoint weak spots. [1]

  • Boost patient trust: Effective nurse-patient communication is directly tied to greater trust—one study scored patient trust in nurses at an impressive 27.59 out of 30, linked closely to strong communication efforts. [5]

  • Improve safety and satisfaction: Hospitals with the lowest nursing communication scores saw 27% more patient safety events compared to those with top ratings, proving the link between communication and safety. [2]

Without these surveys, you risk flying blind on the true quality of day-to-day patient experiences—missing opportunities to fix real issues and showcase what your nursing team does best.

If you want to dig deeper on which questions work, visit our guide to the best Patient Communication With Nurses survey questions.

Why use an AI survey generator for Patient feedback?

Let’s face it—the old way of creating surveys is slow, tedious, and often results in generic forms that don’t actually get quality responses. With an AI survey generator, building a tailored Patient Communication With Nurses survey takes seconds—not hours. Our tool at Specific wields up-to-date best practices and clinical context to build your survey automatically, saving you from chasing down templates or struggling to write questions from scratch.


Manual Survey Creation

AI-powered Survey (Specific)

Speed

30–60 minutes to draft and review survey

Delivered in seconds

Expertise Required

Needs research experience, risk of bias

Leverages best-in-class question frameworks

Follow-ups

Static; requires manual planning

Conversational AI generates real-time probing

Insight Quality

Limited by static forms

Deeper, richer responses

Why use AI for Patient surveys?

Specific’s conversational survey engine makes it easy to build, launch, and analyze feedback. Respondents feel like they're chatting with a real person, which boosts the willingness to share honest, detailed opinions. It’s the fastest way to get from question to actionable insight—and the only way to scale deep feedback across every patient touchpoint. If you want to know how easy this is, check our step-by-step guide to creating these surveys with AI.

Designing questions that drive real Patient insight

You can have the best tech in the world, but if your questions are unclear or biased, your results will be too. That’s why Specific—the AI survey generator made for serious feedback—crafts expert-grade prompts for you automatically.

Let’s compare:

  • Bad: “Were the nurses good with you?” (Vague, closed, and subjective)

  • Good: “Can you tell us about your experience communicating with the nursing staff during your stay?” (Open, specific, and focused on actual experience)

With manual survey builders, these distinctions are easy to overlook, leading to superficial data. Our AI avoids this pitfall by using proven, unbiased templates—then adjusts the tone and language for a patient-friendly feel.

Actionable tip for better questions: Always focus on behavioral events (“describe a specific moment…”), avoid yes/no, and never include double-barreled questions (“Did nurses explain and listen well?”). If you want inspiration, check the full list of high quality questions for Patient Communication With Nurses surveys.

Automatic follow-up questions based on previous reply

Here’s where Specific’s AI really shines: as patients answer each question, the system dynamically generates follow-up questions in real time. That means, if someone gives an unclear or partial answer, they’re prompted for detail—without you needing to plan or send emails later. This produces full context, richer insights, and much less ambiguity.

If you don’t ask follow-up questions, here’s what you often get:

  • Patient: “The nurse was okay, I guess.”

  • AI follow-up: “Could you share a specific example of when the nurse’s communication helped or let you down during your stay?”

If there’s no follow-up, you’re left with guesswork—not actionable insight. But Specific’s AI turns incomplete comments into stories you can actually learn from. The whole process is seamless—see the automatic AI followup feature in detail for more examples and benefits.

These follow-ups make every survey a genuine conversation—a true conversational survey that uncovers more, every time.

How to deliver your survey for real results

Getting actionable patient feedback means meeting respondents where they are, in a way that’s comfortable and familiar. Specific supports two delivery methods tailored to your needs:

  • Sharable landing page surveys: Perfect for sending a Patient Communication With Nurses survey via email or SMS after discharge, or for posting in a clinic waiting room using a QR code. It’s the easiest way to reach patients wherever they are—not just those actively using your patient portal.

  • In-product surveys: If you run a hospital app or patient portal, embed the conversational survey right there. Patients can respond while accessing appointment details or reviewing care, which maximizes response rates and ensures timely, relevant feedback.

For Patient Communication With Nurses surveys, landing page distribution usually gets better reach after discharge, but in-app prompts work powerfully for routine or ongoing feedback.

Effortless AI-powered survey analysis

Once the responses come in, Specific’s AI survey analysis tools instantly summarize patient feedback, pull out key themes (like communication frequency, empathy, or instructions given), and let you dive into the details—without spreadsheets or manual review. You can even chat with the AI to explore those themes live, making it a breeze to turn feedback into action. Curious how the workflow looks? Learn step-by-step how to analyze Patient Communication With Nurses survey responses with AI on our blog.

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Sources

  1. SAGE Journals. Assessment of patients’ perception towards nurse’s communication in Ethiopia

  2. Fierce Healthcare. Better communication translates to better patient safety, satisfaction

  3. Clinical Journal of Nursing Care and Practice. Nurse-patient communication perceptions among nurses

  4. PubMed. Standardized bedside shift report and patient satisfaction with nursing communication

  5. BMC Nursing. Patients’ trust in nurses and the relationship to communication in Iran

  6. BMC Health Services Research. The effect of physician–patient communication on adherence in hypertension

  7. Biomedical and Clinical Science Research Journal. Impact of weak nurse-patient communication on satisfaction in Pakistan

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Adam Sabla

Adam Sabla is an entrepreneur with experience building startups that serve over 1M customers, including Disney, Netflix, and BBC, with a strong passion for automation.

Adam Sabla

Adam Sabla is an entrepreneur with experience building startups that serve over 1M customers, including Disney, Netflix, and BBC, with a strong passion for automation.