Publications by authors named "Robyn Cook"
Objectives: To summarise contemporary knowledge in nursing informatics related to education, practice, governance and research in advancing One Health.
Methods: This descriptive study combined a theoretical and an empirical approach. Published literature on recent advancements and areas of interest in nursing informatics was explored.
Validation of the Impact of Health Information Technology (I-HIT) Scale: an international collaborative.
Stud Health Technol Inform
October 2009
Article Synopsis
- In 2005, HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community created a survey called the I-HIT Scale to assess the influence of health information technology on nurses and communication in hospitals.
- By 2007, an international group of nursing informatics professionals from various countries began working together to validate the I-HIT Scale.
- So far, teams have confirmed the survey's construct and face validity, and five out of six teams have started testing its reliability with practicing nurses.
The impact of Health Information Technology (I-HIT) Scale: the Australian results.
Stud Health Technol Inform
October 2009
One of role of the nurse in the clinical setting is that of co-ordinating communication across the healthcare team. On a daily basis nurses interact with the person receiving care, their family members, and multiple care providers thus placing the nurse in the central position with access to a vast array of information on the person. Through this nurses have historically functioned as "information repositories".
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