title: The relationship between work climate and nurse educators' use of information technology.
abstract: Understanding organizational behavior and the attitudes of individuals in organizations is crucial for policymakers and managers. Work climate is a major part of these constructs. The main goal of this study was to examine the perceptions of academic nurse educators about their work climate, concerning the use of information technology (IT), including examining a number of variables such as self-efficacy, innovativeness, attitudes, intention to use, and actual use of information technology.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study used a quantitative research design, using written and online surveys submitted to 109 academic nurse educators working at ten different academic nursing schools in Israel.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The relationship between work climate and actual use of IT was mediated by personality characteristics such as attitude toward using IT, self-efficacy, and innovativeness. Work climate positively predicted both self-efficacy and attitudes toward IT, but did not directly predict innovativeness and did not predict actual use.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Policymakers and managers should consider work climate and personality characteristics as important factors in their efforts to promote IT use in nursing. As a result, nurse educators would become better acquainted with new technologies, and their acceptance of IT would improve. The organization would benefit from a better work environment and from enhanced performance.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, School of Social and Community Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, Emeq-Hefer, Israel. Electronic address: ayalago@ruppin.ac.il.
authors.forename: Ayala
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gonen
authors.affiliation: Behavioral Sciences Department, School of Social and Community Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, Emeq-Hefer, Israel. Electronic address: ldlevari@ruppin.ac.il.
authors.forename: Lilac
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lev-Ari
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D001519:Behavior; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D020407:Internet; D007557:Israel; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010551:Personality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Attitudes; Innovativeness; Nurse educators; Self-efficacy; Use of IT; Work climate