title: Predictors of nurse adoption of a computerized information system as an innovation.
abstract: This descriptive study focused on factors that influence the diffusion and adoption of an innovation after it is first introduced to members of a social system. The purposes of the study were 1) to explore a set of individual, technological, and organizational characteristics as predictors of hospital nurse adoption of a computerized information system (CIS) as an innovation, and 2) to investigate the effect of organizational position on innovation adoption. A computerized nursing information system for staffing, scheduling and productivity management was selected as the innovation.
authors.affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Romano
mesh_terms: D001292:Attitude to Computers; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D007256:Information Systems; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology