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Quantifying emergency department nursing workload at the task level using NASA-TLX: An exploratory descriptive study.

Sookyung Park¹, Junsang Yoo², Yerim Lee²

¹School of Nursing, University of Virginia, 225 Jeanette Lancaster Way, Charlottesville, VA 22903-3388, USA.

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Area of Science:

Nursing
Healthcare Management
Occupational Health

Background:

Emergency department (ED) nurses experience significant mental workloads due to unpredictable environments.
Existing research often lacks tools that incorporate nurses' perceptions of workload.
There is a need to quantify ED nursing workload from the nurses' perspective.

Purpose of the Study:

To quantify the subjective workload of ED nurses.
To explore how work experience influences perceived nursing workload in ED settings.

Main Methods:

A survey of 32 ED nurses at a tertiary academic hospital in South Korea.
Utilized the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) to assess subjective workload.
Employed nonparametric statistics and linear regression to analyze data and experience impact.

Main Results:

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and interruptions from patients/families were identified as high-workload procedures.
Inexperienced nurses perceived specialized procedures like CPR and defibrillation as more difficult.
Nurses with over 107 months of experience reported significantly higher workloads than those with less than 36 months.

Conclusions:

Strategies such as managing interruptions and tailored training can reduce ED nursing workload.
Quantifying perceived workload helps establish optimal thresholds, aiding in staffing and ED crowding management.