Evaluating Information Technology Application on Nursing

Abstract<br /> This paper tackles the attitude of nursing staff towards the use of computers in hospitals especially in matters of documenting patients' records, and surgeries by Microsoft Access program which store data and other relevant information as information-bases set in tables and organized formulae, then displaying them in a way that facilitates access to data, storage of data and retrieve of data. Besides, this paper has designed a questionnaire consisting of question items regarding the attitudes of nurses made up of a sample of secondary school, health institutes and university graduates who currently practise or work at four hospitals in Nineveh district.<br /> Their answers have been statistically analyzed by Microsoft Excel according to their qualifications.<br /> Results confirmed hypothesis regarding the positive response to the use of computers since they reduce the paper work bulk, let alone the usefulness of computers as a clinical and administrative tool that is highly efficient in organizing nursing processes .However, the secondary school graduates do not find computers useful for their work.