Critical Care Nurses’ Attitudes towards Technology

Aim: To determine critical care nurses’ attitudes towards technology.Methods: This descriptive study was carried out with 69 nurses who had been working inintensive care units of a university hospital. Data were collected by a questionnaire todetermine nurses’ demographic characteristic and ’Technology Attitude Scale’.Results: The mean age of nurses was 26.48 years, with a standard deviation 4.77 years. Ofthe nurses in the study, 30.4% were male, 69.6% were female and 53.5% had graduated frombachelor degree. The mean score of ’Technology Attitude Scale’ of the critical care nurseswas found to be 3.67±0.54. There was no significant difference between critical care nurses’gender, education and working year in nursing and the mean score of the scale (p 0.05). Conclusion: It was determined that nurses closely followed the technology, supported criticalcare units used technology and used new technologies in their interventions. However, it wasfound that critical care nurses were hesitant on their comments that technology could reduceinteraction among people and technology could alineate from people.