Investigation of Intensive Care Nurses’ Organizational Innovation Levels

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate intensive care nurses’ organizational innovation levels. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted with 90 nurses working in the Intensive Care Units of a Training and Research Hospital in Ankara. Data were collected by Descriptive Information Form and Organizational Innovation Scale. Descriptive statistics, One-Way ANOVA test, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test were used to evaluate the data. Results: The mean age of participants was 28.01±5.6. It was found that most of the participants (68.9%) did not use resources effectively for innovative practices and 66.7% of them did not intend to develop a project related to innovative practices. Eighty-eight percent of participants stated that intensive care units are suitable places for innovative practices. There was no statistically significant difference between age, marital status, educational status, occupational year, working year in intensive care unit with organizational innovation sub-scales (p<0.05). Conclusion: According to this study, intensive care nurses’ socio-demographic characteristics such as age, marital status, education level, occupational year and working time in intensive care did not affect their organizational innovation tendencies.