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Nurses' attitudes towards computerization in clinical practice
Author(s) -
Sultausrat
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1990.tb01893.x
Subject(s) - likert scale , sample (material) , scale (ratio) , nursing , descriptive research , psychology , clinical practice , medical education , medicine , family medicine , sociology , social science , developmental psychology , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics
This descriptive research project was designed to replicate the study of Brodt & Stronge (1980) and to extend and investigate the attitudes of nurses towards computers in clinical practice Lack of an adequate study into nurses’ attitudes to computers was the motive behind this study The research project was earned out in a district general hospital in the United Kingdom Data was collected by means of a Likert's type closed‐structure attitude‐scale questionnaire The sample consisted of 58 nurses working in a clinical setting The overall conclusion was that nurses’ attitudes to computers were more unfavourable than favourable