Innovativeness Levels and Perceived Barriers to Innovativeness of Nursing Students

Abstract

Individual innovativeness feature is the major keyto successful innovation. An examination of situationsperceived as obstacles to innovativeness will help toestablish an innovative culture correctly and plannedmanner. The study was conducted to determineinnovativeness level and the obstacles to innovativebehavior of nursing students. This was a descriptive,cross-sectional study. 279 nursing students wereincluded in the study. The demographic form,Individual Innovativeness Scale, and the Barriers toInnovativeness Questionnaire were used for datacollection. The average individual innovativeness scoreof the students was 63.53 ± 8.58, which is a low levelof innovativeness. The major barriers of theinnovativeness were lack of different lessons to supportcreativity, not planning adequate activities to supportinnovation by educational institutions, and inability toreach current information effectively due to lack ofknowledge of the foreign language, respectively. As aresult of the study, the level of innovativeness ofnursing students was low and major barriers ofinnovativeness were about education. It was suggestedthat the content of nursing education should beinnovative, creative, entrepreneurial, and useinnovative teaching methods.