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Decision-Making in Nursing Students With Different Experience Levels Under Varying Task Complexities: A Pilot

Wei Luo¹, Xiaoyan Jin, Weiran Xu

¹Author Affiliations: Candidate (Ms Luo), Professor of Nursing, Master's Supervisor (Prof. Jin), Technologist-in-charge (Ms Xu), and Technologist-in-charge (Ms Dong), Professor of Nursing, Doctoral Supervisor (Prof. Shang), School of Nursing, Peking University, Beijing, China; Clinical Nurse (Ms Hou), Intensive Care Unit, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; Head Nurse of Internal Medicine (Ms Liu), Department of Internal Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.

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Novice nurses show less organized attention and more gaze shifts when task complexity increases. Enhanced clinical experience helps maintain efficient decision-making and attention, crucial for patient care.

Keywords:

attention cognitive reflection decision-making eye-tracking technology task complexity

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Area of Science:

Nursing Education
Cognitive Science
Human Factors Engineering

Background:

Effective decision-making is critical in nursing, yet often a challenge for students and novice nurses.
Eye-tracking technology provides an objective, real-time method for analyzing cognitive processes during decision-making.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how clinical experience and task complexity influence nursing students' decision-making processes.
To utilize eye-tracking to analyze gaze patterns and decision trajectories in relation to experience levels and task difficulty.

Main Methods:

A pilot observational study divided nursing students into high- and low-experience groups.
Participants completed intravenous infusion preparation tasks of varying complexity.
Eye-tracking and visualization techniques were employed to analyze visual attention and decision pathways.

Main Results:

Lower task complexity resulted in fewer fixations and shorter durations for all participants.
Increased complexity led to more fixations, longer durations, and frequent gaze shifts in low-experience students.
High-experience students demonstrated shorter fixation times, fewer transitions, and more organized visual attention, even with increased complexity.

Conclusions:

Clinical experience and task complexity significantly impact nursing decision-making and cognitive processing.
Higher complexity shifts processing from intuitive to analytical, particularly evident earlier in less-experienced students.
Integrating complexity-based tasks and expanded practice into nursing curricula can enhance efficient, patient-centered decision-making skills.