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Nursing Workload and the Changing Health Care Environment: A Review of the Literature
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Neill, Denise – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2011
Changes in the health care environment have impacted nursing workload, quality of care, and patient safety. Traditional nursing workload measures do not guarantee efficiency, nor do they adequately capture the complexity of nursing workload. Review of the literature indicates nurses perceive the quality of their work has diminished. Research has…
Descriptors: Nursing, Nurses, Responsibility, Literature Reviews
Workplace Design Compatibility for Today's Aging Worker.
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Kupritz, Virginia W. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1999
Interviews with 12 older (ages 60 to 78) and 12 younger (ages 38 to 53) administrators showed that they had similar perceptions of the physical features and privacy issues in the workplace that facilitate or impede work. Structural accommodations may not be necessary for older workers, but attention to design and privacy issues is necessary for…
Descriptors: Human Factors Engineering, Job Performance, Older Workers, Physical Environment
Task Analysis for Reliable Human Performance.
Davies, Ivor K. – Performance and Instruction, 1981
Recommended as a means for reducing human stress and errors in the work place, task analysis can be used to assist in decision making and provide a detailed inquiry into the actions that need to be taken in the performance of a specific job or task. (MER)
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Human Factors Engineering, Job Performance, Job Skills
The Role of the Physical Environment in Maximizing Opportunities for the Aging Workforce.
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Kupritz, Virginia W. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2000
A survey of 120 administrators (59 aged 60+, 61 aged 35-50) found that both groups had similar perceptions of the association between office design and work activities. Older and younger workers ranked certain design features differently, and they had different perceptions of the privacy features of the work environment. (SK)
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Human Factors Engineering, Job Performance, Middle Aged Adults
Designing and Implementing an Ergonomics Inventory to Improve Management of Human Factors Programs.
Johnson, Kenneth A. – 1984
Self-report ergometric inventories can provide valuable information to employers and can serve as a means of intervention to improve employee attributes. Based on the science of ergonomics (a science that studies the natural laws of work in order to maximize human efficiency in job performance), such an inventory focuses on the interaction of the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Employer Employee Relationship, Evaluation Utilization, Human Factors Engineering
VDT Syndrome: What the HRD Professional Should Know.
Wagner, Judy L.; Didriksen, Mark C. – Performance and Instruction, 1990
Discusses health concerns associated with the use of video display terminals (VDT) and provides guidelines to enhance the performance of VDT users. Health issues addressed include radiation, musculoskeletal, psychological, and visual concerns. Guidelines for a well-designed VDT environment are also presented, including hardware considerations,…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Design Requirements, Furniture, Guidelines
Human Interactive Analysis Using Video: Mapping the Dynamics of Complex Work Environments.
Terrell, William R.; And Others – Educational Technology, 1992
Explains human interactive analysis as an architecture for using computer interactive technologies in the analysis of complex work environments. A project at the Naval Training Systems Center that used video-audio data to develop a multimedia database is described; the analysis and management of data are discussed; and decision processes are…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Data Analysis