Publications by authors named "Hilde Marie Andreassen"

Purpose: Previous studies indicate that the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) in health care organizations impairs health care professional's working conditions and diminishes job discretion. Most of these studies, however, were designed to explore the influence of ICT exclusively on a single group of health care professionals and thereby did not consider the influence of the same technology on other groups of health care professionals. The aim of this article is to explore the influence of a fully integrated ICT system on both doctors and registered nurses within the same working environment: a high-tech hospital.

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Aim: To explore nurses' perspectives on technical skill requirements in primary and tertiary healthcare services and their perspectives on where students should learn these skills.

Design: The study was conducted in Norway and had a cross-sectional, multicentre, descriptive design.

Methods: We used a questionnaire to explore registered nurses and intellectual disability nurses' perspectives on technical skill requirements and learning ( = 437).

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Purpose: Previous studies show that the hospital environment and the behavior of health care personnel may predict patients' perceptions of care quality. The aim of the study was to explore changes in perceived care quality from the patients' perspective (QPP) when hospital services are relocated from an old to a new high-tech hospital and to describe what is important for patients in the high-tech hospital.

Patients And Methods: A comparative cross-sectional design was used.

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