E-Readiness Assessment of Teaching Hospitals Affiliated to Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences for E-Learning Implementation for Nurses’ In- Service Training

Introduction: To get updated, nurses need to attend in-service training courses. Elearningis a promising solution for providing courses to busy nurses in teaching hospitals.This study aims to evaluate the readiness of teaching hospitals for e-learningimplementation specialized for nurses in-service trainings.Methods: This descriptive-analytical survey was carried out in Bandar Abbas (Iran)teaching hospitals affiliated to Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences (HUMS) fromMarch to June 2016. It included nursing staff, trainers, and related hospital and HUMSauthorities. Questionnaires and checklists adopted from earlier studies and customized forthis study were used for data collection. Appropriate descriptive and inferential statisticalformulas were applied using SPSS version 19.Results: Data showed that HUMS; in general, was in an optimum situation for e-learningimplementation regarding manpower, financial support, technical equipment, strategicplan, content authoring and access to the internet. However, access to informationresources and digital library was not good. Hospital authorities stated that they had lack ofmanpower and required infrastructure. Some of them doubted the appropriateness of elearningfor clinical trainings. Apart from knowledge dimension, nurses reportedsignificantly higher than the average on other study dimensions.Conclusion: To implement e-learning for nurses in-service trainings, HUMS must hireexperts for authoring and producing content; and technical staff for maintenance theinfrastructure. Moreover, e-learning knowledge and skills of people involved in e-learningneeds to be improved.

کلیدواژه ها:

E-Readiness ، Nurses ، In-Service Training