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Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to understand nursing innovation competition regarding the creative motivation, the procedures of design and experience.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to understand impact factors on innovational process among nurses in Taiwan.
Method: The design of the study was a cross-sectional questionnaire survey with a purposive sampling. The total of research participants was 102 nurses who are awarders of the nursing innovative competition of the National Union of Nurses Associations in 2006-2007. The study is applied by both the qualitative approach (Narrative Analysis) and the quantitative survey (a structural questionnaire).
Finding: The mean age of nurses’ participants was 41 years old. 60% participants had an educational level of college. Almost 87% of participants were married. More than half of the participants were appointed an administration job with head nurses or associate head nurses. Near ninety percents nurses’ participants involved in research activities. In the findings from quantitative data, nurses’ participants reported higher than average scores on creative questionnaire. Also there was high degree of supportive working conditions for the nursing staffs’ innovation. There was positively correlation between the years of participating research activities and individual creativity. For the qualitative part of the study, three themes were identified from the narrative data obtained through the semi-structured questions: (1) the most important factor for accomplishment of the innovation work was supports from the nursing administrators and the associates; (2) the profoundest experience of innovative process was that the clients or the family members embraced innovation products; (3) the most difficult experience is to create the idea of innovation.
Conclusion: Information in this paper presentation may serve as future reference for nursing researchers to address consideration on nursing innovation and for nursing educators to promote nurses’ innovation in clinic setting.
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