Staff nurses' readiness to use computer system in clinical practice at Shebin Elkom Hospitals

Background: Nurses are being challenged to the use of computers into their daily work, it is
imperative to understand nurses’ readiness towards the use of computers in order to ensure a
successful implementation. Aim is to assess the critical care staff nurses' readiness to use
computer system in clinical practice at Shebin Elkom University Hospital and Shebin Elkom
Teaching Hospital. Sample was consisting of all staff nurses working in the critical care units
at Shebin Elkom University Hospital and Shebin Elkom Teaching Hospital during the study
time (152 nurses).Tool: Questioner sheet was used for data collection (49 items). The results
indicated that all of the studied nurses in Shebin Elkom Teaching Hospital were agreed with
that computer is very important in nursing practice, and the majority of them were agreed
with that computers system help to improve nurse performance at work. Total staff nurses
have a moderate skills level of using computer and Shebin Elkom University Hospital staff
nurses had more knowledge about computer using than Teaching Hospital, most of the staff
nurses are aware by the benefits of using computer. The highly cost to provide a large
numbers of computers, and no enough spaces in the patients' room are barriers of apply using
computer. Nearly all of studied subject were agreed with providing computer programs
according to nurses' educational level to overcome these barriers. The study concluded that,
highest percent of staff nurses were having readiness to use computer system in nursing
practice. The study recommended; nurses need for organizational support includes
organizing education and giving training programs for the staff nurses to overcome some of
their fears about using computer. Generating supportive written instructions for how to use
the computer system before the implementation of the new application.