A Comparison of Task Difficulty Ratings Made by Nurses and Medical Service Corpsmen.

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to develop and compare task difficulty measures for nurses and medical service corpsmen. This is one of a series of reports concerning the role of the nurse and medical service corpsmen in the Air Force's health care delivery systems. A sample of 135 nurses and 133 medical service corpsmen completed difficulty ratings on tasks included in previously job inventories. The reliability of the ratings were analyzed and correlation between the two groups of ratings evaluated. The correlation between the two groups was extremely high, suggesting that direct comparisons between difficulty of jobs performed by medical service corpsmen and nurses could be made without fear of bias as a function of raters. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0778840

Entities

People

  • Barry P. Mcfarland

Organizations

  • Brooks Air Force Base

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Delivery Of Health Care
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Inventory
  • Reliability

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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