Nursing Attitudes and Images of Electronic Patient Record Systems

Abstract

In an effort to predict nursing intention to adopt and properly use a new electronic patient record system (EPRS), a survey gathered demographic and computer experience information of, and attitude and image profile toward, the EPRS prior to installation. The results showed a somewhat positive overall attitude and age was found to be a significant factor in determining nurses' attitudes toward the EPRS. The image profile for the EPRS revealed a more negative perception of the EPRS by the nursing staff. A regression model, designed to identify variables that would predict attitude and in turn system adoption and use of the EPRS, found that age and image profile predictions were significant. The outcome of this research reinforces the notion that nurses are accepting of new EPRS systems and are somewhat supportive of technology in general, but the image profile draws attention to their concerns for quality healthcare delivery.

Perioperative Nurses' Attitudes Toward the Electronic Health Record

“…There were no significant differences in age, years of experience, or educational level. This aligns with research by Dillon et al 11 showing a generally positive attitude across all groupings with the growing acceptance of technology throughout the general population.…”

“…Overall attitudes of the participants responding in this project were positive, similar to results found by Dillon et al, 11 Kaya,13 and Moody et al 14 The original intent of this project was to identify perioperative nurses' attitudes toward the EHR. We did make some comparisons with the literature.…”

Do electronic medical record (EMR) demonstrations change attitudes, knowledge, skills or needs?

“…Survey questions were adapted from previously published EMR-related surveys. 4,5,16,17,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] This study was approved by the TriHealth Institutional Review Board prior to its initiation. Participants were informed that their responses would remain confidential and anonymous, and that only group results would be reported.…”

Development and Testing of an Evaluation Scale of Personal Digital Assistants

“…The nurse respondents in this study were much younger than nurse samples in other studies on evaluating technology use. 41,44,45 The nurses in this study were on average in their late 20s and had 3 to 10 years of nursing experience. These younger nurses probably had more computer skills and higher expectations of PDA use than did their counterparts in other studies, possibly explaining the slightly low evaluation of the clinical use of PDAs.…”