Perceived Self-Efficacy of Teaching for Creativity Among Nurse Faculty in Taiwan: A Preliminary Study

Abstract

Many health care education programs, particularly those in Taiwan, have begun offering capstone product-based curricula, not only to improve nursing students’ problem-solving skills but also to foster creativity and innovation regarding health care issues. This study used a cross-sectional quantitative design to explore the efficacy of teaching for creativity among nurse faculty in Taiwan. Results showed knowledge of intellectual property rights was low, as was ability to creatively evaluate trademark and patent designs. Curiosity was the main predictor associated with self-efficacy of teaching for creativity.

Enhancing social and health care educators’ competence in digital pedagogy: A pilot study of educational intervention

“…Copyright issues taught during the educational intervention included measures to take in securing the authors' own rights and using resources under intellectual property regulations, but also guiding students to oblige the rules and ethics of intellectual property. These issues are scarcely studied in the field of health care educator education, but our results are aligned with the previous studies [17,18], and they show, there is a call for enhancing the intellectual property competencies. Apart from intellectual properties, competence in guiding students in the responsible production of digital resources and differentiation of education in the digital environment were also among the most improved competence areas.…”

“…Moreover, educators need more knowledge about students' thoughts, interests and the way of interaction when choosing the effective teaching strategies with different students [16]. Research on educator competence in copyright and creative commons licences is scarce, but there is some evidence, that continuous education is needed [17,18]. More research is needed on educators' competence and continuous education in digital pedagogy.…”

The association of creativity, creative components of personality, and innovation among nursing students in Taiwan

“…They state, "Creative thinking enables students to apply their imagination to generating ideas, questions and hypotheses, experimenting with alternatives and to evaluating their own and their peers' ideas, final products and processes" [17]. Although creativity and innovation are considered important core competencies for nursing students in Taiwan [8], few studies have examined the interaction of creativity and innovation for nursing students, as it relates to education courses designed to increase nursing students' creativity and innovation to improve healthcare.…”

“…In this study, we used the ACCS in order to measure the Taiwanese nursing students' perceived levels of creative personality traits. This instrument has also been used to evaluate perceived levels of creative personality traits for nursing faculty in Taiwan [8].…”

“…Incorporating this type of 'design thinking' has also been encouraged for nursing programs in the US to help nurses develop problem-solving skills for the improvement of nursing care quality [7]. Five nursing schools in Taiwan have incorporated capstone courses into their curricula to improve nursing students' creativity and innovation; the goal is to help students generate innovative patentable healthcare products to solve real-world healthcare problems [2,8]. However, there is a gap in the literature as to whether there is a relationship between creativity and innovation.…”