TY - GEN
T1 - Stress, fatigue, and workload in intensive care nursing
T2 - Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2017 International Annual Meeting, HFES 2017
AU - Khanade, Kunal
AU - Sasangohar, Farzan
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Stress and fatigue are being interchangeably used in the nursing literature resulting in operationalization and measurement issues. A scoping review was conducted to identify different definitions and operationali-zation of these constructs. Findings can be used to develop tools to measure stress and fatigue as different constructs to aid nursing administrators to gain a new perspective into nursing schedule, workload, morale and well-being of nurses. The findings show that there is a research gap in measurement of acute stress in nursing, physiological measures are currently not used for continuous assessment of stress or fatigue for nurses, and lack of stress and fatigue definitions in terms of physiological measures for assessment purposes. Continuous monitoring and physiological measures such as heart rate can be used to measure and differentiate between the constructs of stress and fatigue.
AB - Stress and fatigue are being interchangeably used in the nursing literature resulting in operationalization and measurement issues. A scoping review was conducted to identify different definitions and operationali-zation of these constructs. Findings can be used to develop tools to measure stress and fatigue as different constructs to aid nursing administrators to gain a new perspective into nursing schedule, workload, morale and well-being of nurses. The findings show that there is a research gap in measurement of acute stress in nursing, physiological measures are currently not used for continuous assessment of stress or fatigue for nurses, and lack of stress and fatigue definitions in terms of physiological measures for assessment purposes. Continuous monitoring and physiological measures such as heart rate can be used to measure and differentiate between the constructs of stress and fatigue.
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U2 - 10.1177/1541931213601658
DO - 10.1177/1541931213601658
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85037739369
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 686
EP - 690
BT - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2017 International Annual Meeting, HFES 2017
PB - Human Factors an Ergonomics Society Inc.
Y2 - 9 October 2017 through 13 October 2017
ER -