Creativity is fundamental for the advancement of nursing practice and turn into a prerequisite for enhancing nursing results.
In addition, nurses’ creativity assumes critical part as, seeks high value to an organizations' development, productivity and
maintainability is entrenched. Productivity is a critical marker of professional development within any professional group,
including nurses. Aim: The present study aimed to assess effect of education program about creativity in work on nurses'
productivity. Research Design: Quasi experimental design was utilized. Study Setting: the study was conducted in general
medical and surgical units at Benha University Hospital. The study sample was: A convenience sample of staff nurses (102)
from the above-mentioned setting. Tools of data collection: Four tools were used: (1) Creativity knowledge questionnaire, (2)
Attitude toward creativity questionnaire, and (3) Level of creativity questionnaire, (4) Nursing productivity questionnaire.
Results: The findings of this study showed that there was highly statistically significant improvement in staff nurses'
knowledge and attitude toward creativity thorough program. In addition, there was highly statistically significant
improvement in staff nurses` level of creativity and level of productivity thorough program. Conclusion: The study concluded
that that there was a positive highly statistically significant correlation between level of productivity and level of creativity
and attitude toward creativity immediate post program. Recommendation: Policymakers nurse educators, nursing and
hospital managers should provide a nurturing environment that is conducive to creative thinking, giving the nurses
opportunity for flexibility, creativity, support for change, and risk taking for increasing productivity. And nursing faculties
should integrate creative thinking education in study courses. |
