Intentions of Hospital Nurses to Work With Computers

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine registered nurses' attitudes related to intent to use computers in the hospital setting as a predictor of their future behavior. The study was further aimed at identifying the relationship between these attitudes and selected sociological, professional, and personal factors and to describe a research model integrating these various factors. The study was based on the theory of planned behavior. A random sample of 411 registered nurses was selected from a single large medical center in Israel. The study tool was a Likert-style questionnaire. Nine different indices were used: (1) behavioral intention toward computer use; (2) general attitudes toward computer use; (3) nursing attitudes toward computer use; (4) threat involved in computer use; (5) challenge involved in computer use; (6) organizational climate; (7) departmental climate; (8) attraction to technological innovations/innovativeness; (9) self-efficacy, ability to control behavior. Strong significant positive correlations were found between the nurses' attitudes (general attitudes and nursing attitudes), self-efficacy, innovativeness, and intentions to use computers. Higher correlations were found between departmental climate and attitudes than between organizational climate and attitudes. The threat and challenge that are involved in computer use were shown as important mediating variables to the understanding of the process of predicting attitudes and intentions toward using computers.

Factors Affecting Nurses' Attitudes Toward Computers in Healthcare

“…Shoham and Gonen 15 found that nurses experienced with use of computers have more positive attitudes toward the use of computers than those of the inexperienced ones. The present study's result is consistent with the findings of Bongartz 36 and Shoham and Gonen, 15 who found that nurses exposed to computers showed more positive attitudes toward computers. Contrary to the present study, Sultana 32 found no significant differences in terms of attitudes toward computers among subjects categorized into different groups by their present computer experience, that is, less than 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years.…”

“…Several studies have been conducted worldwide to examine nurses' attitudes toward use of computers and factors affecting their attitudes. [4][5][6][7][9][10][11][12]14,15,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32] However, the number of such studies in Turkey is limited. 25,33 Therefore, the present study was performed with the purpose of identifying the attitudes of Turkish nurses toward the utilization of computers in healthcare and factors affecting their attitudes.…”

“…1,4,[14][15][16] The study of nurses' attitudes toward computers began in the late 1960s. Numerous studies have examined the importance of nurses' attitudes toward how successfully computers are introduced into a nursing unit.…”

“…The questionnaire was developed by the researcher in light of the literature. [4][5][6]9,11,15,[27][28][29] Part 2…”

Determinants of Primary Care Nurses’ Intention to Adopt an Electronic Health Record in Their Clinical Practice

“…Similar studies had obtained a response rate between 23% and 84%. 12,27,28 For this study, we anticipated a response rate of 50%. At the time of the study, a total of 199 nurses worked in the CSSS, so this number constituted the target population for the study.…”