Eliciting Strategies from Expert Critical Care Nurses Using the Threat-Strategy Interview

Abstract

Although it has been recognized that operators in dynamic environments often use strategies to cope with changes in task demands and to maintain high levels of performance, there is a need for methodologies that focus on eliciting the information that operators use to select such strategies. This study administered the Threat-Strategy Interview to pediatric and cardiac intensive care unit nurses to elicit cues that aid in the recognition of threats to performance, strategies to manage those threats, and conditions that lead to the selection of each strategy. We hope to build a predictive model of strategy selection by expert nurses that could be used to teach expert strategies to novice nurses.