Pattern Classification of Eye Movement and Analysis of Risk Prediction Ability in Nurses

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26463207
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental nursing
• Research Institution: Tokyo Medical and Dental University
• Principal Investigator: Daikoku Rie 東京医科歯科大学, 大学院保健衛生学研究科, 助教 (70510345)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 看護師 / 熟練看護師 / 危険予知 / 眼球運動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Even with the same prior information in the same situations, expert nurses have greater observation skills than novice nurses. In order to find out how expert nurses observe their surroundings, I studied their eye movement with an eye camera during observation and conducted awareness surveys by questionnaire before and after observation.
Expert nurses with high observational skills exhibited the following characteristics: 1). No difference to novice nurses in gaze count, gaze time, implementation time of environmental improvement, and time until action of over entire observation period; 2). Able to gaze in a well balanced manner regardless of presence of danger within first 5 seconds of observation; 3). Lower gaze count and gaze time than novice nurses before action; 4). Able to specifically recall patient profile and environment of patient's room from prior information; and 5). Able to perform much environmental improvement of the risk part and of all the part than novice nurse.

Free Research Field

基礎看護学