A Survey of Nurses Self-Reported Prospective Memory Tasks: What Must they Remember and What do they Forget?

Fink, Nicole; Pak, Richard; Bass, Brock; Johnston, Michael; Battisto, Dina

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“…Better preparing nurses to safely fulfil the task of medication administration in the clinical environment, with increased PM memory in the face of interruptions, could lead to a reduction in errors and concomitant improvements to patient safety [13]. Prospective memory plays an important role in successful task management by nurses [9,10,21]. A nurse's work conditions place heavy demands on PM memory.…”

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“…As noted above, the nurses have many kinds of work to do. Thus, it is very important to help them to improve their ability to handle PM tasks [9,10,21]. One limitation of this study was its cross-sectional nature.…”

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“…Nursing environments in the real world make it possible to have higher probabilistic loads over longer periods of time, with more varied, more complex, and more continuous tasks, and more PM and emerging events that are delicate and revealing. In addition, research has shown that factors such as the importance of the PM task and rehearsal can affect PM performance [9][10]. The nurse's prospective burden increases interruptions in their job performances.…”

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Association between prospective, retrospective memories and job performance of nurses in the city of Ahvaz, Iran, in 2016

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2019

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Article Info Background: Nurses continuously carry out several activities and need to develop certain cognitive mechanisms to be able to concentrate on their tasks. These activities and tasks affect and deal with the health and safety of people and their job performance. This study aims to investigate the association between prospective and retrospective memories and job performance of nurses in Imam Hospital, Ahvaz, Iran, in 2016. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on 150 nurses (67 males and 83 female) of Imam Hospital in Ahvaz based on an available sampling method. The Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ) determined the amount of prospective and retrospective memories, and job performance was evaluated using Steinmetz questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive tests, analysis of variance, and Pearson correlation. Results: The mean score of prospective memory, retrospective memory and job performance were 20.89 (±5.87), 19.43 (±5.12) and 52.46 (±8.14), respectively. Regression model showed that 22% of the variance in job performance is explained by prospective memory and retrospective memory. Conclusion: We concluded prospective and retrospective memories were associated with the job performance of nurses working in Imam Hospital, Ahvaz, Iran. It is very important for the safety of the patients to improve the ability of the nurses who perform different tasks. In PM's tasks, they implemented strategies.

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Association between prospective, retrospective memories and job performance of nurses in the city of Ahvaz, Iran, in 2016

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“…The preliminary coding scheme examines whether reported PM tasks (both those they remember and forget) are event-based or time-based tasks, whether they involve the prospective component of PM or the retrospective component, and the degree to which the reported memory problem could be aided through human factors design. We also intend to classify reported PM tasks using an existing PM taxonomy previously used in aviation (Dimukes & Nowinski, 2007) and healthcare (Fink, Pak, Bass, Johnston, & Battisto, 2010;Grundgeiger, Sanderson, MacDougall, & Venkatesh, 2009) that divides PM tasks into five primary categories: episodic, habitual, atypical, interrupted, and interleaving.…”

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How is Prospective Memory Used to Complete Instrumental Activities of Daily Living? Examining the Topic Through Focus Groups with Older Adults: Pilot Results

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Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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A key goal of many older adults is to maintain an independent lifestyle, but in order to live independently in the community, it is necessary that older adults are able to perform instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). Many IADLs require the use of prospective memory (PM), however the research documenting the specific PM tasks people encounter when performing IADLs is scant. The current paper describes a proposed study and lessons learned from a pilot study aimed at narrowing the gap in the literature, by identifying common PM tasks older adults encounter when performing IADLs. Specifically, we aim to 1) identify PM tasks older adults must remember and those they forget when performing IADLs, 2) describe the nature of the PM tasks, 3) pinpoint memory aids that are used to help remember the PM tasks, and 4) offer human factors design recommendations based on our findings to help improve memory aids and decrease forgetting.

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“…Where PM has been investigated, researchers have resorted to multiple methods to capture it. Using questionnaires, researchers have shown that ICU staff (Fink, Pak, Bass, Johnston, & Battisto, 2010) and anesthesiologists (Dieckmann, Dyrlov, Reddersen, Rall, & Wehner, 2009) encounter PM-demanding situations and experience PM failures. Field studies have shown that ICU nurses face the same five kinds of PM situations that Dismukes and colleagues identified in the cockpit (Grundgeiger, Sanderson, MacDougall, & Venkatesh, 2009).…”

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Prospective Memory in Complex Sociotechnical Systems

Grundgeiger

Sanderson

Dismukes

2014

Zeitschrift für Psychologie

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An important cognitive function is the ability to remember to execute future tasks, a capability known as prospective memory (PM). Workers in complex sociotechnical systems such as healthcare and aviation face many PM challenges and forgetting tasks can have severe consequences. Although researchers have made progress in understanding how individuals remember future tasks, system-level support for PM has seldom been addressed. In the present paper, we briefly review PM research in healthcare and aviation, focusing on naturalistic studies using expert workers, and we present the concept of distributed prospective memory, which incorporates the interaction between the environment and the individual when future tasks must be remembered. PM in sociotechnical settings is a complex process involving human and nonhuman agents. Therefore, a systems approach is needed to fully understand PM processes, thus supporting workers and eventually minimizing errors and increasing safety.

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A Survey of Nurses Self-Reported Prospective Memory Tasks: What Must they Remember and What do they Forget?

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Association between prospective, retrospective memories and job performance of nurses in the city of Ahvaz, Iran, in 2016

Association between prospective, retrospective memories and job performance of nurses in the city of Ahvaz, Iran, in 2016

How is Prospective Memory Used to Complete Instrumental Activities of Daily Living? Examining the Topic Through Focus Groups with Older Adults: Pilot Results

Prospective Memory in Complex Sociotechnical Systems

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