Ayako Nishimura
Faculty of Medicine, School of Nursing,6-1-1 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8402
Japan
Research Article
Effects of Different Methods for Achieving Situational Awareness on Cerebral Blood Flow in Nurses in an Observational Setting
Author(s): Ayako NishimuraAyako Nishimura
When nurses make natural decisions in practical settings, appropriate actions to decrease errors and improve patient safety follow decisions based on proper situational awareness that includes integration of past experiences, the current situation, and future predictions. We established an observational setting where nurses performed environmental arrangement to serve as a setting where they could practice routine situational awareness. This provided an opportunity to consciously practice situational awareness during observation in this setting and then measure cerebral blood flow in the same setting. The aims of this design were to elucidate the effects on cerebral blood flow by comparing different methods of practicing situational awareness and to investigate effective methods of practicing situational awareness.
We performed a randomized, comparative study of different situational aw.. View More»
