The Effectiveness of Teaching Strategies for Creativity in a Nursing Concepts Teaching Protocol on the Creative Thinking of Two-Year RN-BSN Students

Ya-Lie Ku；Chi-Hui Kac LO；Jing-Jy Wang；Lee Hsieh；Kuei-Min Chen

nursing con cepts teaching pro to col ； crc ativ ity ； two-year RN-BSN stu dents

The Journal of Nursing Research

10卷2期（2002 / 06 / 01）

105 - 112

英文

Because of changes in the medical environment, nurses must maintain the ability of diver gent thinking to solve the health problems of patients. How ever, many nurses whose work in dinical practice has become routine have lost the ability of creativity. To cultivate nurses’ creativity shouldbe a goal of nursing education. The purpose ofthis study is to evaluate anursing concepts teaching protocolby utilizing teaching strategies directed toward creativity to pro mote creativity in two-year RN-BSN students. This study design is a time series and one group experiment utilizing multiple instances of treatment. Teaching strategies for creativity were applied to a teaching unit and 52 two-year RN-BSN students were tested for creativity before the end of each semester. This study was con ducted from March, 1999 to May, 2000, but only 30 students com pleted all tests and reached a 58% return rate. Torrance’ s (1974) definitions of creativity includflu ency, flexibility, and unique ness were followed and the instrument, a questionnaire on “Creativity in the application of the Nursing Process Tool (CNPI)”, was designed based on Emerson (1988). The con tent validity of Chinese-version CNPT was .79. The inter-coder reliability between two researchers was .84 following a coding guide that ten nursing education experts had established. The results indicated that 30 two-year RN-BSN students had improved fluency and flex ibility. The improvements reached a significant level after the third semester. Only unique ness declined. It is suggested that nursing faculty apply teaching strategies unique ness more often in a teaching protocol of nursing concepts. By utilizing teaching strategies of creativity in a teaching pro to col of nursing concepts, it is expected that two-year RN-BSN students can acquire charactens tics of creativity for prob1cm-solving skills in clinical settings.

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