Educational implications of nurses' brain dominance, learning styles, and attitudes toward computerization

Nurses have been described as exhibiting computer anxiety as hospitals become automated. Suggestions have been made to provide inservice education to decrease computer anxiety before systems installation. This study examined nurses' brain dominance profiles, learning styles, and attitudes toward computers. Results indicated that 95 staff nurses had 14 different learning styles and were willing to use computers to document nursing care. As hospital inservice education programs are developed, a variety of teaching-learning methods needs to be developed to facilitate learning this new technology.