Determination of Individual Innovation Characteristics of Operating Room Nurses

Objective: This study was conducted to determine the individual innovativeness of the operating room nurses and the individual factors affecting them. Operating room nurses, who work in operating rooms where many biomedical devices and sensitive instruments are used and are constantly changing with the developments in technology, need to lead in terms of individual innovative features and adapt quickly to change. Methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted between 15 November and 31 December 2021 with the participation of 153 operating room nurses in the province of Istanbul. “Individual Innovation scale (IIS)” and “Descriptive Information Form” were used as data collection tools. Data analysis was done with the SPSS 25.0 program. Results: The operating room nurses’ total IIS score was 68.7±7.7, while their opinion leadership, resistance to change, and risk-taking subscale scores were 28.4±3.4, 23.2±5.5, 17.1±1.8 respectively. It was determined that gender, marital status, education level, years of experience in the operating room, surgical department, and institution characteristics affected individual innovativeness characteristics (p<0.05; p<0.01). Conclusion: It was determined that the innovative behavior characteristics of the operating room nurses are mostly interrogators and the need to support and develop their innovativeness characteristics.