Nurses’ Attitudes towards Computerized Health Information System Use in Palestinian Private & Governmental Hospitals رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

Computerized Health Information System HIS are digital records for an individual in a healthcare setting that contains all medical history related to an individual. The ultimate goal for this research to know Nurses‘ attitudes toward the computerized HIS use in Palestinian governmental and private hospitals regarding to, the Institutional benefit, employee use of computers, capabilities of computers, quality of patient care, legal ramifications and Job security. There are no researches for private or governmental hospitals or charitable societies (hospitals or centers). Therefore, we need to know the important factors in the different nursing attitudes to direct the concerned authorities to places of correction. To achieve our research objectives a quantitative, descriptive cross-sectional study approach was used to describe the nurses‘ attitudes toward computerized ―HIS‖ use in Palestinian hospitals. The Nurse Attitudes toward Computerization (NATC) questionnaire used to collect data from four governmental hospital and three-privet hospital, the sample size was 390 nurses who work at these hospitals with more than six-month experience. Our results show 373 respondents (95.6%) returned completed questionnaires and were included in the statistical analysis; Nurses with previous computer experience had more positive attitudes than those without computer experience. Nurses with Bachelor‘s degrees had more positive attitudes toward computerized HIS than those with diplomas. Type of facility showed a Statistical significant difference in mean attitude scores among nurses by hospital type at the 0.05 level, p value <0.001. In addition, there is a statistically significant difference in nurses‘ attitudes among the type of shift categories at the 0.05 level, p value VI 0.022. Nurses' Ability to Access computers at Work, Home, or Both, there was a statistically significant only in two attitude subcategories including, employee use of computers (P value <0.001), and legal ramifications (P value = 0.012). Nurses‘ age, gender, length of service, and job title did not have any effect on nurses‘ general attitude toward computers. The findings of this study showed that the majority of the nurses working in Palestinian hospitals use computers or had computer experience. Therefore, the researcher recommended Palestinian Ministry of Health and private hospital to provide further training and support for nurses to learn how to use computer technology as the Palestinian Ministry of Health and private hospital implements computerized HIS in all Palestinian hospitals.