PURPOSE This study tested the effectiveness of a dynamic educational and mentoring program, facilitated by unit-level mentors, to introduce, promote, and sustain an evidence-based practice (EBP) culture among nurses in a military healthcare setting. BACKGROUND The need to identify gaps in practice, apply principles of EBP, and advance scientific applications in the pursuit of quality nursing ...

Purpose: To show how e-readiness indicators, specifically the Networked Readiness Index, participate in the work of defining policy problems. Methodology/Approach: The article critically examines the Networked Readiness Index is terms of its presentation and its underlying model. It relies on an approach to policy analysis that views policy problems as socially constructed. Findings: E-readines...

This paper is a preliminary report on using FLOSSmole data retrieved from open source repositories (forges) to calculate Business Readiness Rating scores.

The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ perceptions towards integral calculus difficulty and their readiness towards using technology in learning integral calculus. A total of 191 students were selected at random from two lecture groups of Technical Mathematics 1. The students were given a set of questionnaire with two parts. The first part was used to measure students’ perceptio...

BACKGROUND In 2004, Ghana began implementation of a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to minimize out-of-pocket expenditure at the point of use of service. The implementation of the scheme was accompanied by increased access and use of health care services. Evidence suggests most health facilities are faced with management challenges in the delivery of services. The study aimed to assess ...

BACKGROUND Depression is a major cause of morbidity and cost in primary care patient populations. Successful depression improvement models, however, are complex. Based on organizational readiness theory, a practice's commitment to change and its capability to carry out the change are both important predictors of initiating improvement. We empirically explored the links between relative commitme...

process management (pm) is a structured, systematic approach that is adopted by firms in order to analyze, improve and control their processes. this paper has been focused on identifying and testing the effective critical success factors (csfs) in the preparation and successful implementation of process management. according that in this study by reviewing the literature and studying various re...

BACKGROUND Organizational readiness to change healthcare practice is a major determinant of successful implementation of evidence-based interventions. However, we lack of comprehensive, valid, and reliable instruments to measure it. We assessed the validity and reliability of the Spanish version of the Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation (OR4KT) questionnaire in the context of th...

<span>Cloud computing (CC) implementation for educational services is confronting several challenges. Prior research focused on the technological related challenges while few examine economic The purpose of this study to using CC in institutions Iraq. Articles pertaining topics were extracted from main databases. Based review, critical identified. To confirm their relatedness Iraqi contex...