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- Title
The relationship between task complexity and decision-making consistency.
- Authors
Hughes KK; Young WB
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between task complexity and decision-making consistency using a normative decision model. The Decision Analytic Questionnaire (DAQ), an instrument designed to measure nurses' decision making under increasingly uncertain and complex conditions, was administered to a stratified random sample of 101 paid volunteer medical-surgical nurses drawn from three public teaching hospitals. Probit analysis was used to construct a profile of the decision maker whose decisions coincided with those of the model. Results indicated that nurses made clinical decisions that coincided with those recommended by a normative decision model but that agreement diminished as task complexity increased (p < .005). The results also indicated that consistency was task specific, that predictive variables were a function of decision task and that more predictor variables were needed to explain consistency as task complexity increased.
- Publication
Research in Nursing & Health, 1990, Vol 13, Issue 3, p189
- ISSN
0160-6891
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1002/nur.4770130308