Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Nurse satisfaction and acceptance surveys

• Survey distributed before and after each go-live
  • Survey items based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) measured perceived usefulness
  • Open-ended questions: advantages and disadvantages
• Survey population: inpatient nursing staff
  • Before eMAR (n=245), after eMAR (n=268)
  • ~45% work in ICU
  • ~50% have worked 1-5 years in their current work area