Latest issue of Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing (AJAN) out now
Volume 42, Issue 2 of the Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing (AJAN) is now live. As the official peer-reviewed journal of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), AJAN is committed to publishing high-quality scholarly work that is of critical relevance to nursing and midwifery audiences in professional, clinical, research, education, management, and policy roles. […]
Nurses’ cognitive mental workload: Staff welfare, patient safety and quality care at peril
Globally, there are risks of unintentional harm to patients due to inadvertent clinical errors, nurses’ burnout contributing to high turnover, and rises in healthcare costs, all threatening already overstretched systems. One crucial but largely overlooked factor contributing to these risks is nurses’ cognitive mental workload inherent in performing their clinical work. Research suggests nurses experience […]