Effectiveness of a nursing innovation workshop at enhancing nurses’ innovation abilities: A quasi-experimental study

Abstract

Aim: To investigate the effectiveness of nursing innovation workshop in enhancing clinical nurses’ innovation ability and research ability in a tertiary hospital. Design: A quasi-experimental study design. Methods: Thirty-seven recruited nurses participated in a nursing innovation workshop for half a year in a tertiary hospital in Guangdong between June 2019 and March 2020. Questionnaire data on the nurses’ self-rated innovation and research abilities were collected before the training and 3 months after completing the training. Wilcoxon signed rank tests were used to analyse differences within the group before and after the intervention. The level for statistical significance was set at p ≤.05 (two-tailed). Results: Nurses’ self-rated innovation ability (p