11th EORNA Congress Valencia, Spain | 16 - 18 May 2024 Priority Sessions 4 255 Determination of Individual Innovation Characteristics of Operating Room Nurses Nurgül Arpag1 2, Sevgi Gür3, Hamdiye Banu Katran4 1Istanbul Atlas University Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing, Turkey, 2Istanbul Atlas University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Turkey, 3Selçuk University Faculty of Nursing, Department of Surgical Nursing, Turkey, 4Marmara University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Surgical Nursing, Turkey Background: Operating rooms appear as service areas where innovative approaches are most needed with the effect of rapidly developing technology. The 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. Objectives: The study was conducted to determine the individual innovativeness of the operating room nurses and the individual factors affecting them. 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. The snowball sampling technique, one of the nonprobability sampling methods was used. 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. Conclusion: It has been determined that the individual innovativeness of the operating room nurses is mostly in the inquiring category, women are more open to change than men, men and those with more than ten years of experience are perceived as more opinion leaders, and married people are perceived as both more open to change and opinion leaders. It was found that as the level of education and years of experience increased, the innovativeness level was positively affected, while the risk-taking feature decreased. Conducting the research with including different geography and cultures; it can obtain important information about identifying and supporting the innovative characteristics of operating room nurses.
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