Description
Providing healthcare professionals with cognitive aids, whether a simple checklist or an information system, improves patient care and reduces information-processing constraints for caregivers. However, to achieve these objectives, these aids must be adaptable and ergonomic.
Cognitive Aids to Support Healthcare Professionals offers an unprecedented presentation of the different forms of cognitive aids, as well as an analysis of these aids as gateways for channelling resources to support mental activity and a general framework to simply model cognitive aids as Turing machines.
Throughout this book, healthcare professionals, executives, hospital managers, healthcare engineers, ergonomists and trainers will find ergonomic advice on the choice or design of cognitive aids, and also, more generally, on the roles that cognitive aids play in activities.
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Morgan JAFFRELOT
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Part 1. Cognitive Aid as a Gateway 1
Chapter 1. Defining a Cognitive Aid 5
Chapter 2. Cognitive Aid: A Gateway Between the Individual and their Environment 27
Chapter 3. Routing Analytical Thinking to Support Intuition 47
Chapter 4. Routing Intuitive Thinking to Support Analysis 73
Chapter 5. Routing Prescribed Tasks to Support the Actual Activity 93
Part 2. Cognitive Aid as a Turing Machine 123
Chapter 6. Analyzing the Work Domain to Design a Tape 133
Chapter 7. Task Analysis for Designing a Network of States 157
Conclusion 183
References 189
Index 203
