| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 醫護管理研究所 === 90 === Application of PDA in hospital has become a technically interesting topic. Therefore, it would be practically important to understand the perceived values and usefulness of the intended clincal users on this technology.
This study used the Technology Acceptance Model to evaluate the nurses’ perceived values on the PDA as well as traditional terminal triage support systems in the emergency department. The relationships of both the perceived “easiness of use (EOU)” and the perceived “usefulness (U)” with the behavioral intention were studied.
The PDA triage support systems were developed in the period of from May 2001 to May 2002 and five stages of intensive training courses on the use of systems were held for all 72 emergency nurses at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, which is a medical center with 2,737 beds. An expert-validated questionnaire was used for the survey. The a scores of reliability and validity of questions for both EOU and U were ranged in 0.89-0.91. The results showed that significant relationships of the perceived EOU and the enhancement of job performance with nurses’ behavioral intension on the PDA triage support system. However, data were not enough to support the significant relationships between the issues of interface design, content validity as well as the perceived usefulness and nurses’ behavioral intention on the PDA system. With regard to the traditional terminal system, no significant relationship was showed. However, it was interesting that nurses’ perceived values of perceived EOD, U and behavioral intension on the traditional terminal system were all higher than those in the PDA one. The results showed that the medical professionals’ intension to use the PDA might not be higher than to use the traditional PC unless it could be showed to be capable of enhancing the user’s job performance with an easy use design of interface.
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