Healthcare work environments

ABSTRACT Accounting educators strive to prepare graduates for work in their chosen field. Various teaching methods can be employed to best accomplish this goal. One valuable tool is the use of active learning tasks that simulate external work environments. This paper describes the collaboration between an AIS and an Auditing professor who used an integrative task that spanned their two classes over two semesters. The authors had their AIS students complete Arens and Ward's Systems Understanding Aid (SUA) project (Arens & Ward, 2008). The following semester, students in the auditing class audited the records and financials that had been generated by students the previous semester. The project was designed to facilitate course integration and teamwork by having groups of students play the role of corporate accountants, then act as independent auditors.

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Healthcare Work and Organizational Interventions to Prevent Work-related Stress in Brindisi, Italy

Safety and Health at Work ◽

10.1016/j.shaw.2014.10.003 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 35-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Gabriele d'Ettorre ◽

Mariarita Greco

Keyword(s):

Work Related Stress ◽

Work Related ◽

Organizational Interventions ◽

Healthcare Work ◽

Related Stress

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A Meta-Analysis of Studies on Groupware for Collaborative Work Environments

Proceedings ◽

10.3390/proceedings2021074009 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 74 (1) ◽

pp. 9

Author(s):

Birgul Kutlu ◽

Yeliz Gunal Aggul ◽

Idil Atasu ◽

Zeynep Kaymaz

Keyword(s):

Research Method ◽

Design Science ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Work Conditions ◽

Work Environments ◽

Academic Field ◽

Time Space ◽

Space Matrix

This meta-analysis examines the studies on groupware published between the years 2010 and 2020. Descriptive analysis was conducted to determine the distribution of studies in terms of publication year, time–space matrix category, targeted sectors, research methods, and the academic field of the journals that published these studies. Although groupware played a significant role in communication, collaboration, and coordination of users in various collaborative work conditions and sectors, the majority of studies focused on asynchronous and distributed collaborative work environments in the software engineering field, and the research method preferred was design science.

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Illuminating the decision-making strategies of anesthesia providers in challenging cases

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/1071181320641149 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 (1) ◽

pp. 653-657

Author(s):

Joshua Biro ◽

David M. Neyens ◽

Candace Jaruzel ◽

Catherine D. Tobin ◽

Myrtede Alfred ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Work Environment ◽

Medication Errors ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Best Practice ◽

Practice Recommendations ◽

Medication Delivery ◽

Anesthesia Providers ◽

Healthcare Work ◽

Realistic View

Medication errors and error-related scenarios in anesthesia remain an important area of research. Interventions and best practice recommendations in anesthesia are often based in the work-as-imagined healthcare system, remaining under-used due to a range of unforeseen complexities in healthcare work-as- done. In order to design adaptable anesthesia medication delivery systems, a better understanding of clinical cognition within the context of anesthesia work is needed. Fourteen interviews probing anesthesia providers’ decision making were performed. The results revealed three overarching themes: (1) anesthesia providers find cases challenging when they have incomplete information, (2) decision-making begins with information seeking, and (3) attributes such as expertise, experience, and work environment influence anesthesia providers’ information seeking and synthesis of tasks. These themes and the context within this data help create a more realistic view of work-as-done and generate insights into what potential medication error reducing interventions should look to avoid and what they could help facilitate.

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