Abstract:

Individual innovativeness feature is the major key to successful innovation. An examination of situations perceived as obstacles to innovativeness will help to establish an innovative culture  correctly and planned manner. The study was conducted to determine innovativeness level and the obstacles to innovative behavior of nursing students.  This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study. 279 nursing students were included in the study. The demographic form, Individual Innovativeness Scale, and the Barriers to Innovativeness Questionnaire were used for data collection. The average individual innovativeness score of the students was 63.53 ± 8.58, which is a low level of innovativeness. The major barriers of the innovativeness were lack of different lessons to support creativity, not planning adequate activities to support innovation by educational institutions, and inability to reach current information effectively due to lack of knowledge of the foreign language, respectively. As a result of the study, the level of innovativeness of nursing students was low and major barriers of innovativeness were about education. It was suggested that the content of nursing education should be innovative, creative, entrepreneurial, and use innovative teaching methods.

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