Factors affecting cognitive work ability among intensive care unit nurses

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Industrial Engineering

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source Title

2012 Southeast Asian Network of Ergonomics Societies Conference: Ergonomics Innovations Leveraging User Experience and Sustainability, SEANES 2012

Publication Date

11-7-2012

Abstract

This study introduces a conceptual model for cognitive work ability. Factors influencing CWA were identified in the context of intensive care unit (ICU) nursing. Senior nurses (45 and above) were subjected to a virtual simulation of an emergency ICU situation with three patients to care for. Color cues in the vital signs monitor, visual cues in the physician's orders, abnormalities and arrangement of medicine in the e-cart were adjusted into different settings to produce two trials per nurse. Color cues, visual cues and alphabetical arrangement were found to improve response time and accuracy. Greater task complexity also led to poorer performance quality. Other relationships in the CWA model were also validated. © 2012 IEEE.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1109/SEANES.2012.6299584

Disciplines

Nursing Administration | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Keywords

Nurses—Ability testing; Intensive care nursing

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