Empirical Study of Nova Scotia Nurses’ Adoption of Healthcare Information Systems: Implications for Management and Policy-Making

Empirical Study of Nova Scotia Nurses' Adoption of Healthcare Information Systems: Implications for Management and Policy-Making.

BACKGROUND This paper used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), which was extended, to investigate nurses' adoption of healthcare information systems (HIS) in Nova Scotia, Canada. METHODS Data was collected from 197 nurses in a survey and data analysis was carried out using the partial least squares (PLS) technique. RESULTS In contrast to findings in prior studies that used TPB to investig...

Unique Challenges for Small Business Adoption of Information Technology: The Case of the Nova Scotia Ten

INTRODUCTION The global nature of pr duct and service markets, technology and competition has increased business requirements for flexibility, quality, cost-effectiveness and timeliness. As a key resource for meeting these requirements, information technology (IT) has been revolutionizing business practice. While there has been considerable research into the way in which large businesses use th...

Healthcare in rural Nova Scotia improves with support for physicians.

The Study of Critical Realism Implications in Evaluation of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Making

Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify and extract the implications of critical realism for science, technology and innovation policy-making as one of the later research traditions in social sciences. Nevertheless, its main focus, according to the different stages of the policy-making cycle and extent of its contributing factors, is on the stage of "policy evaluation". Methods: Thi...

study of cohesive devices in the textbook of english for the students of apsychology by rastegarpour

this study investigates the cohesive devices used in the textbook of english for the students of psychology. the research questions and hypotheses in the present study are based on what frequency and distribution of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are. then, to answer the questions all grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading comprehension passages from 6 units of 21units th...

Adoption of the Nova Scotia (Canada) Community Pharmacy Medication Management Program, 1-Year Post-Initiation.

BACKGROUND Pharmacists conduct medication reviews to optimize drug therapy. Each jurisdiction implements and funds these programs differently. OBJECTIVE To describe the uptake of the first year of a community pharmacy medication review program reimbursed by the publically insured seniors' drug benefit program in Nova Scotia, Canada. METHODS This retrospective analysis included 294 pharmacie...