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Background Current information systems do not effectively support nurse managers' duties, such as reporting, resource management, and assessing clinical performance. Few performance management information systems are available and features in many are scattered.
Objectives The purpose of the study was to determine nurse managers' opinions of information system support for performance management.
Methods An online questionnaire was used to collect data from nurse managers (n = 419). Pearson's correlation coefficients and linear regression were used to examine the relationships between variables, which were nurse managers' ability to manage resources, to report and evaluate productivity, and to assess nursing performance and clinical procedures.
Results More than half of the managers used performance management systems daily. Managers (60%) felt that they can use information systems to follow the use of physical resources, and in general (63%), they felt that it is easy to perform searches with the systems used for following up activity. Nurse managers' ability to manage resources, to report productivity, and to assess nursing care performance were correlated significantly with each other.
Conclusion Currently, managers have to collect data from various systems for management purposes, as system integration does not support performance data collection. The availability of continuous in-service training had a positive effect on information system use.
Keywords health information technology competencies - health information technology - in-service training - management information systems - nurse manager Ethical ConsiderationsFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare provided ethical approval (THL/482/6.02.01/2020) for the study. The use of the membership databases of the nurses' associations was selected as it protected participant anonymity when the researchers were not in contact with the members.
Publication HistoryReceived: 10 May 2022
Accepted: 02 November 2022
Accepted Manuscript online:
15 November 2022
Article published online:
09 January 2023
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