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Showing 1 to 20 of 293 for “"interruptions"”.
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Decreasing Interruptions at the Bedside
<p>Interruptions are a disruption in a nurses’s routine, thereby causing a break in work and thought process. Medication administration demands full attention from nurses to ensure accurate doses, preparations and administration. Triaging interruptions can help to decrease the inevitable …
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Minimizing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration
… nurse satisfaction by minimizing the avoidable interruptions that occur during medication administration. The microsystem is a pediatric and adult medical-surgical overflow unit at a large, urban teaching hospital in Northern California. A series of surveys for nurses and patients and …
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Effect of Interruptions on Route Recall Performance
… in a virtual environment is not affected by interruptions, regardless of their timing. This may be due to landmarks in the environment aiding memory recall.
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The effect of unresolved interruptions on prospective memory
… prospective memory or PM) was impacted by interruptions, unresolved interruptions, and delays. The PM task was to shop for eight items within an environmental sustainability rating task. A comedy routine appeared after participants had rated several items for both interruption groups, while …
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Reducing Avoidable Interruptions During the Medication Administration Process
… reducing the number of phone call and call light interruptions during the medication administration process.</p> <p>Methods: Lippitt’s Change Theory was used to address the objective of decreasing medication errors by reducing the amount of phone call interruptions during the medication …
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Modelling interruptions of human-in-the loop tasks
<p>"Interruptions are a part of our everyday experience and are increasingly becoming a part of our work. Systems are typically not designed with consideration of the effects of interrupting a user during a task sequence. Research is being done in the field of interruptions and its effects. There …
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Interruptions : using activity transitions to trigger proactive messages
… has led to an increase in device generated interruptions experienced by users. These interruptions are not confined to a particular physical space and are omnipresent. One possible strategy to lower the perceived burden of these interruptions is to cluster non-time-sensitive interruptions …
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The effect of interruptions on airline schedule control
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Thesis. 1967. M.S.
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Decreasing Medication Errors Through the Reduction of Avoidable Interruptions
… however the focus of this paper will be on the interruptions occurring during medication passes, interruptions that can have severely detrimental effects on patients and their safety.</p>
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Relationship between Delirium and Night-Time Interruptions in ICU
… Limited knowledge existed on the role night-time interruptions caused by routine hospital processes played in the prevalence of delirium. Objectives: This body of work aimed to determine the prevalence of ICU delirium in a sample of ICU patients and discover if there was a relationship between …
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The dynamics of interruptions in engineering project task execution
… within the organization, leading to frequent interruptions. These interruptions can have significant impacts on productivity. Moreover, the productivity impacts often lead to degrading project cost and schedule performance, increased workload and stress, more mistakes, and ultimately …
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A personal, mobile system for understanding stress and interruptions
… to interact by adjusting the timing of these interruptions. An interactive, health application has been developed for data collection, annotation, and feedback that is part of a longer-term research plan for gathering data to understand more about stress, the physiological signals involved in …
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Transnational ‘Interruptions’ in Eritrean Refugee Lives in the Bay Area
<p>For many refugees, the day they flee their home country is the start of the interruption of their life. For refugees, such interruption brings the absence of continuity and loss of vision for the future, that they have to be present in the current situation – not knowing their future. This …
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Improving Medication Administration and Patient Outcomes by Decreasing Avoidable Interruptions
… problem in our health care system, (2) Interruptions are implicated as a cause of clinical error, (3) Medication errors are associated with excess health care costs and most importantly, (4) Harm to the patient (Westbrook, Woods, Rob, Dunsmuir, & Day, 2010). Project data was gathered …
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Estimated Business Interruptions Losses of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
… based on Input-Output methodology, for business interruptions of less than one year. Medium- and Long-run economic impacts were estimated using the Regional Economic Models, Inc. REMI. The REMI Model is a dynamic hybrid model that combines econometric, input-output, and computable general …
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The Effect of Interruptions During a Laparoscopy Skills Training Task
… goal of the present study was to examine how interruptions during a laparoscopic skills training task affected task performance. Undergraduate students completed a task that required them to pick up and transfer colored objects in a specific, predetermined sequence. The number of colored …
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The Timing of Discrepant Interruptions and its Influence on Team Performance
Discrepant interruptions are inevitable in today’s highly dynamic and turbulent environment. Organizations need to handle discrepant interruptions effectively in order to survive. Since organizations mostly rely on teams to do task and achieve goals, teams are required to deal with the discrepant …
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The effects of interruptions on decision-making with applications in medicine
… of a complex procedure with an urgent message, interruptions are an inevitable part of our daily lives no matter who we are, where we live, or what we do. Interruptions can have a variety of affects on people's performance and behavior. While interruptions may sometimes facilitate performance, …
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Black women at the crossroads: Agency, interruptions, and oppression in education
<p>This dissertation utilizes intersectionality, critical race feminism (CRF), Black feminist research and case studies to explore Black women’s oppression in education. This research study contributes to a growing body of work on Black females’ experiences of marginalization socially and …
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Dynamic thermal response of buildings resulting from heating and cooling interruptions
Transient modelling of heat fluxes and temperatures in structures was conducted to examine the effect of various characteristics on the temperature response during unusual operating and extreme weather conditions. The analytical model was validated using published experimental data and numerical …
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