Nursing’s Voice in Healthcare IT Acquisition Decisions

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dc.contributor.authorMcLean, John Allen
dc.contributor.supervisorFrisch, Noreen Cavan
dc.contributor.supervisorRoudsari, Abdul V.
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-12T23:09:09Z
dc.date.available2014-12-12T23:09:09Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-12-12
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Health Information Science
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Nursing
dc.degree.levelMaster of Nursing M.N.en_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.
dc.description.abstractThe participation of senior nursing healthcare executives in the acquisition of electronic healthcare information system is not well understood. This is an important issue because nurses make up the majority of care-providers within the Canadian healthcare system, and thus the majority of the information systems end-users. End-user involvement in the selection and evaluation of a healthcare information system is vital to implementation success; it is very important we understand the participation of the nursing leadership making these important decisions. The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore this gap in our understanding, to find ‘Nursing’s Voice’ in this process. The soft-systems methodology theoretical perspective was used to understand how this process might be improved. Senior healthcare executives with a background in nursing from each of the Health Authorities across British Columbia were recruited to participate in an online survey questionnaire. An N=11 of senior executives were invited to participate, and a response rate of 82% was achieved. The results showed that despite a lack of formal training in information technology subjects, the majority of these nursing leaders do take an active role in electronic healthcare information systems acquisition and upgrading projects along-side their health informatics colleagues; ‘Nursing’s Voice’ is clearly heard.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0984en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0769en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0569en_US
dc.description.proquestemailmcleanja@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5757
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/*
dc.subjectNursingen_US
dc.subjectHealthcareen_US
dc.subjectInformation Technologyen_US
dc.subjectAcquisitionen_US
dc.subjectDecisionsen_US
dc.subjectExecutivesen_US
dc.subjectManagementen_US
dc.subjectLeadershipen_US
dc.subjectComputersen_US
dc.subjectBritish Columbiaen_US
dc.titleNursing’s Voice in Healthcare IT Acquisition Decisionsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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