The Effects of an Innovation Process in Nursing Course on Students’ Creative Thinking and Entrepreneurial Skills: An Uncontrolled Before/After Study

Abstract

Background: Creative thinking and entrepreneurship have an important place in innovation studies in the field of nursing. Purpose: This study aims to examine the effect of an Innovation Process in Nursing course on students’ creative thinking tendencies and entrepreneurship skills. Methods: An uncontrolled before/after design with non-probability sampling collected data on 70 nursing students in a 15-week Innovation Process in Nursing course using the Marmara Creative Thinking Dispositions Scale (MCTDS) and the University Students Entrepreneurship Scale. Data were analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation, and paired samples t-test. Conclusions: Scores on both the MCTDS and the University Students Entrepreneurship Scale improved significantly (p < 0.05) on post-test. Implications for Practice: Nurse educators should add courses on creative thinking and entrepreneurship to the curriculum.

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“…Students' scores on scales of both Creative Thinking Disposition and Entrepreneurship improved significantly on post-test. The author concludes that the course helped students gain awareness of creative thinking, generating new ideas, contributing to innovation studies in the field of nursing, and catching new opportunities as entrepreneurs, paving the way for them to develop new projects in their student life and when they graduate (Tuğrul, 2023).…”