Nurses' Attitudes and Preferences towards usage of Electronic Medical Records

Wan Marina Wan Ismail; Norhaini Majid; Ariani Fatmawati

doi:10.21834/ebpj.v7i21.3579

Authors

Wan Marina Wan Ismail Center for Nursing Studies, Faculty of Health Science, University Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia
Norhaini Majid Center for Nursing Studies, Faculty of Health Science, University Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia
Ariani Fatmawati Faculty of Health Science, Aisyiyah Bandung University, Bandung, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7i21.3579

Keywords:

Attitudes, Preferences, Electronic Medical Records, Nurses

Abstract

Electronic Medical records document the treatment plan and patient care. This study intends to identify trained nurses' reception toward using EMR in the wards. A non-experimental cross-sectional survey covered the multi-discipline area. A stratified random sampling method in which the population in this research consisted of n=138 trained nurses. Results found that the trained nurses tended to document the data at the nurse's station compared to the bedside entry. It's also shown that the demographics variable significantly correlated with attitude domains. Hence with the research results, it is envisaged to benefit the nurses and organization and hopefully can become the catalyst for the Ministry of Health in further improving and elevating the system throughout all hospitals in Malaysia.

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