The Effect of Mobile Support Devices on the Anxiety and Self‐Efficacy of Hospital Float Staff     

Megan Riley McKee  Jeff M. Allen  Robin Tamez 《Performance Improvement Quarterly》2014,27(2):59-81

Floating is the act of staff moving from one unit to another based on the needs of the patients in a hospital. Many staff who float to different units express negative feelings, including anxiety and lack of self‐efficacy. However, floating is an economical and efficient method to use staff across the hospital, especially with current staffing shortages in the United States. This study investigated how the use of mobile performance support devices may help reduce anxiety and increase self‐efficacy for staff who float to different units. With access to multiple resources available on mobile devices, Bandura's social learning theory and self‐efficacy concept set the framework through modeling, observing, and imitating others in order to reproduce certain behaviors and tasks and believe in one's capability to perform. A quantitative study incorporating the retrospective pretest‐posttest design was conducted using the population of float staff, both nurses and respiratory therapists, from Children's Medical Center of Dallas. Both the State‐Trait Anxiety Inventory and General Self‐Efficacy Scale, along with a basic demographic tool, were used to explore anxiety and self‐efficacy in relation to the use of mobile performance support devices. Findings can be used to alleviate the negative feelings of staff toward the idea of floating.  相似文献   

Higher education strategy in digital transformation     

Mohamed Hashim  Mohamed Ashmel  Tlemsani  Issam  Matthews  Robin 《Education and Information Technologies》2022,27(3):3171-3195

Education and Information Technologies - Digital transformation in the global higher education industry determines the future roadmap to a sustainable education management strategy. This research...  相似文献   

Becoming ‘One of Us’: Ethnic discrimination,community and American values in Sweet Land     

Robin E. Field 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2023,46(3):215-223

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