Abstract
Subjective mental workload was introduced for study in nursing emanating from a concern among nurses that current measures of nursing workload fail to capture the cognitive demands of patient care. Subjective mental workload is conceptually based on attention load, or the amount of attention that is required versus amount available to cognitively process work information. Information processing theory suggested a relationship between past learning and subjective mental workload; that is, as work becomes more familiar, subjective mental workload decreases. Subjective mental workload had been measured in other populations, but had not been studied in nursing. The purposes of the study were to: (1) examine the validity and reliability of NASA TLX for use among cardio-vascular critical care nurses; and, (2) examine subjective mental workload and its relation to specialty experience, general experience, and education of registered nurses in cardiovascular critical care units.
Sigma Membership
Alpha Theta, Lambda Rho at-Large
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Descriptive/Correlational
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
Nursing Workload, Patient Care Standards, Nurses' Mental Health
Advisor
Nena Sanders
Degree
Doctoral-Other
Degree Grantor
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Degree Year
1993
Recommended Citation
Gregg, Andrea Crawford, "Relationship among subjective mental workload, experience, and education of cardiovascular critical care registered nurses" (2020). Dissertations. 1730.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/1730
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Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2020-07-24
Full Text of Presentation
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 9333178; ProQuest document ID: 304046175. The author still retains copyright.