Exploring the technology readiness of nursing and medical students at a Canadian University.

摘要: Technology readiness is a well-established construct that refers to individuals' ability embrace and adopt new technology. Given the increasing use of advanced technologies in delivery health care, this study uses Readiness Index (Parasuraman, []) explore technology nursing medical students from fall 2006 cohort at Memorial University Newfoundland. The three major findings are (i) rural more insecure with than their urban counterparts, (ii) male score higher on innovation female counterparts have overall attitude students, (iii) who older 25 negative whereas those under had positive score. These suggest care professional schools would be well served implement curricular changes designed support needs women...