The perfectly motivated nurse and the others: workplace and personal characteristics impact preference of nursing tasks.

Aims: To identify whether motivation of nurses coincides with personal values, workplace or personal characteristics.

Background: Shortage of nursing workforce compromises patient care. Motivation and job satisfaction are factors considered to make nurses quit.

Evaluation of the effect of information integration in displays for ICU nurses on situation awareness and task completion time: A prospective randomized controlled study.

Objective: The study measured whether nurses' situation awareness would increase and task completion time decrease when they used an integrated information display compared to traditional displays for medication management, patient awareness and team communication.

Setting: The Burn Trauma Intensive Care Unit (BTICU) at the University Hospital, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Participants: 12 experienced BTICU nurses.

ICU nurses' evaluations of integrated information displays on user satisfaction and perceived mental workload.

Consolidated information from multiple sources (patient monitors, electronic medical records, infusion pumps, ventilators, medication references) may improve nurses' work and patient safety. Objective. Two hypotheses were tested, that integrated information displays (a) improve nurses' satisfaction and (b) lower perceived mental workload.

Intensive care unit nurses' information needs and recommendations for integrated displays to improve nurses' situation awareness.

Objective: Fatal errors can occur in intensive care units (ICUs). Researchers claim that information integration at the bedside may improve nurses' situation awareness (SA) of patients and decrease errors. However, it is unclear which information should be integrated and in what form.

A far-view intensive care unit monitoring display enables faster triage.

Although nurses perform the majority of the clinical tasks in an intensive care unit, current patient monitors were not designed to support a nurse's workflow. Nurses constantly triage patients, deciding which patient is currently in the most need of care. To make this decision, nurses must observe the patient's vital signs and therapeutic device information from multiple sources.