"Fit" Determining Nurses' Satisfaction of Nursing Information System Usage

In the digital age, nursing units must more than ever be able to utilize nursing information system (NIS) to enhance efficiencies, effectiveness, and decision-support, and get timely answers to questions, when they arise in daily clinical and administrative practice. Previous researchers have suggested that satisfaction status is established on the degree of fit, when achieve a good fit between the users’ requirements and technological capabilities to attain optimal use satisfaction. Thus, this study attempts to understand how impact of fit of individual requirement-technological capability on user satisfaction through the holistic perspective of fit within the nursing context. The results indicate that the fit of users’ perceptions-technological capabilities interaction is a more important factor than individuals’ factor of users’ perceptions or technological capabilities in users’ satisfaction of information system usage.