The Intention and Influence Factors of Nurses’ Participation in Telenursing

This study aimed to identify factors that significantly affect the behavioral intention of nursing staff practice telenursing, applying decomposed theory planned behavior (DTPB) as research framework. cross-sectional survey collected data from a valid sample 203 responses nurses regional hospital in Taipei City, Taiwan. The results analysis showed staff’s attitude, subjective norms, and perceived control toward telenursing correlated positively with participate telenursing. Decomposing main concepts identified two significant predictive determinants influence nurses’ intentions: (a) facilitating conditions (β = 0.394, t 5.817, p 0.000 < 0.001) (b) supervisor (β= 0.232, 3.431, 0.001 0.01), which together explain 28.6% variance for intention. this indicated support encouragement supervisors are important affecting Education training, health policies advocacy provision adequate technologies recourses improving