BACKGROUND Multihospital healthcare system leaders and individual nurses are challenged to integrate standardized evidence-based practices that support continuous performance improvement in their systems. AIM This study was undertaken to evaluate the strength of and the opportunities for implementing evidence-based nursing practice across a diverse 9-hospital system located in the mid-Atlanti...

BACKGROUND The Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment (ORCA) is a measure of organizational readiness for implementing practice change in healthcare settings that is organized based on the core elements and sub-elements of the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework. General support for the reliability and factor structure of the ORCA has been re...

background: concept of e-readiness is used in many areas such as e-business, e-commerce, e-government, and e-banking. in terms of healthcare, e-readiness is a rather new concept, and is propounded under the title of e-healthcare. e-health readiness refers to the readiness of communities and healthcare institutions for the expected changes brought by programs related to information and communica...

according to rapid changes in information age, iranian organizations should move faster toward optimization of e-business. in order to achieve this strategic goal, recent study develops a conceptual model for presenting the factors affecting e-business diffusion (internal integration and external diffusion) based on toe framework. the purpose of this model is examining the influence of technolo...

This study focuses on the dynamic managerial capabilities of smart city managers and organizational readiness a administration required to drive transformation. After reviewing literature, we conducted semi-structured interviews with in 40 cities. We identified five that effectively contribute transformation: seizing, sensing, innovation, integrative, empowering capability. Our analysis also re...

Blockchain has great potential for facilitating the development of construction industry but not been widely used to this end. The objective study was identify factors affecting adoption blockchain in from technical, organizational, and environmental dimensions with help theories related technology adoption. Empirical results showed that relative advantage, compatibility, competitive pressure, ...

Longitudinal data from a stratified representative sample of U.S. Air Force personnel (N = 1009) deployed to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations were analyzed in this study. Using structural equation models, we examined the effects of war exposure on traumatic experiences, Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) symptoms, resource loss, and on subsequent functioning, perceived health, and on...

Organizations develop crisis readiness to avoid and mitigate crises. This study investigates several factors that influence readiness, including market dynamism, perceived likelihood of a (PLC), firm size. It also evaluates the impact on performance. Results from PLS-SEM assessment 301 managers in United States suggest dynamism drives performance while heightening both PLC readiness. When compa...