J Korean Clin Nurs Res.  2021 Apr;27(1):35-44. 10.22650/JKCNR.2021.27.1.35.

Factors Affecting the Individual Innovative Behaviors of Tertiary Hospitals' Nurses: Focusing on the Individual, Job and Organizational Factors

• Kim JH
• Kim YJ

• KMID: 2515784
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.22650/JKCNR.2021.27.1.35

Abstract

Purpose
The aim of this study was to identify the individual, job, and organizational factors affecting the individual innovative behaviors among tertiary care hospitals’ nurses.
Methods
The participants in this study were 230 nurses who have worked more than one year in tertiary care hospitals. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires that included individual factors (self efficacy, and empowerment), job factors (knowledge and skills for evidence-based practice, and beliefs for evidence-based practice), organizational factors (perceived organizational support), and individual innovation behavior. The SPSS/WIN 25.0 program was used for data analysis which included descriptive analysis, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffé test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and hierarchical regression analysis. Results: Individual innovative behavior had significant positive correlations with all of individual, job, and organizational factors. The results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that knowledge and skills for evidence-based practice (β=.28, p<.001), self efficacy (β=.25, p=.002), gender (female, β=.23, p<.001), and beliefs for evidence-based practice (β=.17, p=.016) were significant factors influencing on individual innovative behavior. Conclusion: These findings suggest that knowledge, skills and beliefs for evidence-based practice, and self efficacy were linked to individual innovative behaviors. Therefore, education and human resource management improving self efficacy, knowledge, skills and beliefs for evidence-based practice are needed to increase nurses’ individual innovative behaviors in tertiary care hospitals.

Keyword

Self Efficacy; Empowerment; Evidence-Based Practice; Organizations; Nurses