Work Characteristics and Innovation Behaviors among Staff Nurses

Abstract

Nowadays the importance of scientific knowledge has been increasing and health-care applications are changing rapidly. The increasingly aging population, chronic treatment of acute illness depending on which treatment applications have changed the perspective on the quality of the patient's care and maintenance. Innovation is the most important tool for improving the work characteristics. Usually, the concept of innovation in the health sector and in particular for nursing, new approaches, technologies and ways of working is described as a process of development. This study was aimed to explore the relationship between work characteristics and innovation behaviors among staff nurses through (assessing work characteristics as perceived by staff nurses, assessing innovation behaviors as perceived by staff nurses and finding out the relationship between work characteristics and innovation behaviors among staff nurses). This study was carried out at El Matria Educational Hospital which affiliated to Ministry of Health. Its capacity is (300) beds. The sample estimated to be (172) staff nurses out of (310) who will be eligible to participate in this study. Data for this study were collected by using two tools namely work characteristics questionnaire and innovation behavior questionnaire.