Aerospace Psychology
1. The complicated task of piloting an aircraft can be broken into two broad categories. The first is keeping the aircraft flying. The second is arriving at a given destination. The second is always being effected by the first. Unlike a car, small deviation in course can over great distances cause the aircraft to arrive hundreds of miles from the target destination. To successfully accomplish the task, safe arrival, the larger tasks can be sub-divided into three categories. The first is the Procedural Tasks. These are the maintenance task that must be accomplished every time in a certain way at a certain time, i.e. take off and landing checklists. The next is Decision and Judgement Tasks. Problem solving is another way to look at it. The crew will react based on past experience to a given situation. The last is Communications and Resource Management. This is how the crew communicates with each other while problem solving, either poorly or well.
2. The pilot uses visual cues such as rate of flow of texture outward from or convergence of parallel linear features to visually fly the aircraft. Estimates of speed are derived from global optic flow (GOL). This is the rate that texture flows over the optical area. This can be effected by elevation, at higher elevations underestimation of true speed will occur. Approach path distortions occur when there is a slope before the landing strip or other visual features such as dwarfed trees. The human eye is not designed for conditions found in flight. Planes that are a collision course have no apparent movement to them. This takes the natural attraction to movement out of play. Because of the lack of visual stimulation the eye will focus only a few meters in front, so distant objects are unfocused. The scanning of instruments provides a source of input that allows the pilot to visualize the position of aircraft in flight. The novice pilot will scan all the instruments in a given pattern. While the experienced pilot will look at all the instrument that will give them feedback on the action that occurred. Of the main instrument the most useful is the attitude direction indicator (ADI). This is the instrument most referred and the one that most novice pilot will get fixated with. It is also the only one that resembles an aircraft and provides information in a format other than an analog circular dial.
Identify and sort out and summarize the problem(s). Decide which is the most important problem.
After assessing the workload of each deputy in the unit, Wade formulated a course of action to share the workload and organized the activity in an efficient and systematic manner. Wade viewed each obstacle as an opportunity to problem solve, choosing the course of action best suited for the individual situation. As such, within a relative short period of time, Wade grasped control of the activity and with his guidance;
A coordination problem is when one has a task to perform in a specific sequence. Time is limited and there are multiple shifting components in this task. It is important to perform efficiently to avoid frustration and confusion. One will most likely face a coordination problem when in command of a large business or troops. Comparing buying a coffee to deploying troops, Stanley Fish believes that “these days” people face a coordination problem when buying a cup of coffee. In his article “Getting Coffee is Hard to Do,” Fish argues that buying coffee in the past was a better experience than today’s.
The level of job satisfaction for a nurse is a vital factor in creating positive outcomes for their patients. California RNs report having much more time to spend with patients. The hospitals are far more likely to have enough RNs on staff to provide quality patient care. In California, where hospitals have better compliance with the staffing limits, RNs report fewer complaints from patients and families and the nurses have more confidence that patients can manage their care upon discharge. California RNs are substantially more likely to stay in their jobs because of the staffing limits, and less likely to report burnout than nurses in any other state. Two years after implementation of the California staffing law which mandates minimum staffing levels by hospital unit, nurse workloads in California were significantly lower than that of any other state. The legislation of the mandated nurse patient ratio has achieved its goals of reducing nurse workloads, improving recruitment and retention of nurses, and having a favorable outcomes on patient
Sensory signals relating information about our physical movements, as well as information regarding external object motion, are required in order to preserve a stable and accurate view of the world, and estimate external motion. Space constancy is the visual system’s ability to maintain a view of the outside world that does not jump about and move with an eye movement (Deubel, Bridgeman, & Schneider, 1998; Stark & Bridgeman, 1983). A simple way of achieving this is to add the velocity estimates that are derived from afferent and efferent motion signals. The sum of these estimates would result in head-centred motion. For instance, the image on the retina of stationary objects in the world would gain a motion opposite and equal to any eye movement. As suggested above, reafferent retinal motion should provide a velocity estimate of similar magnitude to the efferent estimates of eye movement. If these two estimates are equal to one another, but have opposite sign, then their sum would correctly suggest null motion.
Nursing standards are the building blocks that lead to excellent patient care. The ANA (American Nursing Association) has standardized sixteen common practices for the best quality care of patients by nurses. Nurses are only able to facilitate minimal standards to patients due to time restraints derived from patient ratios and lack of support from administration. The hope to achieve the best possible outcomes in patient care are limited to the minimal standards expected of nurses from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (ANA, 2010). Patient ratios have been seen as a huge issue across the realm of nurses and health care facilities in deliverance on patient care. Addressing the issue of nursing shortages and the effects on ...
...os are associated with significantly lower mortality. When nurses’ workloads were in line with California-mandated ratios in all three states, nurses’ burnout and job dissatisfaction were lower, and nurses reported consistently better quality of care (Aiken, Sloane & Cimiotti, 2012).
It is imperative to discuss with nurses how they perceive staffing and how it relates to patient safety, quality of care, and if there are certain cares left undone due to staffing concerns. This article was chosen because nurse staffing is a massive issue in any nursing practice. The patient’s and other staff feel the devastation when the patient to nurse ratios are not precise. Working overtime produces exhausted nurses that cannot perform at their ideal productivity level. This results in poor patient outcomes, frustrated colleagues, and subpar work.
...g, and asking good questions. The second category called people and technology systems includes two skills: figuring out how a system should work and how changes in future will affect it, and the second skill being able to measure how well a system is working and how to improve it. The final category of problem solving only includes one skill which is noticing when a problem happens and being able to figure out how to fix it. (mynextmove)
This alone impact quality care in healthcare for not only patients, but nursing and staff as well. Decreasing turnover rates and increasing retention of nurses is important and should not be taken lightly.
Martin (2015) looks at the effect that nurse staffing has on quality care of patients. Using numerous studies, the article reviews nurse under-staffing in hospitals and how it not only impacts the care the patient receives but also the nurse’s well-being. This article supports that staffing has a direct impact on patient care and safety and
“Love is not just a verb” Kendrick Lamar. This verse in the song Poetic Justice was his way to say what love is and what is not. Love could be confused for lust. Lust for the appearance attraction. Many films and stories portray this type of love. In high school I was assigned to read the story of Romeo and Juliet. This story is a great example of the types of love. Were Romeo and Juliet driven by true love or lust? To start we would have to figure out which type of love if any in the story. Some may say that they lusted over each other, and didn’t love each other. The sexual desire was not the case, it is merely inexperience and immature. There are many instances of love in the story.
Aerospace engineers examine, analyze, design, produce, and occasionally install components that make up aircraft, spacecraft, high-altitude vehicles, and high-altitude delivery systems (missiles). Satisfaction with the romantic image of rocket building can buoy many engineers through the highly anonymous work environments that many of them face. Individuals don't assemble rockets; teams do, dozens of teams working in highly supervised coordination. An aerospace engineer plays some part on one of the teams, spending more of her time (roughly 70 percent) in a lab, at a computer, and assembling reports than doing anything else. Not being able to see the "big picture" frustrates some professionals. The path to becoming an aerospace engineer is a rigorous one, but those who manage to survive the difficult lift-off emerge with an above-average degree of career satisfaction.
Problem-solving help the students to create their own representation or illustration (De Corte, Vrerschaffel, De Win 1985; Hegarty, Mayer, Monk, 1995; Pape, 2003) based on how they interpret or understand the given problem (Pape, 2003; Van der Schoot, Bakker Arkema, Horsley, Van Lieshout, 2009). Problem-solving also tests their critical thinking skills on how they look for another strategy or ways to solve the problem easier. Problem-solving helps the problem solver to develop characteristics of a good problem solver which includes open-mindedness, optimistic, persistent, not afraid to commit mistakes and systematic person since he is following a certain step in solving the
* Engineers must be able to work as part of a team. The ability to