The Creative Climate and its Relation to Risk-Taking among Nurses at Port Said Hospitals

Abo Baker, Sara Abdo; El-sayed Aly, Rasha Ibrahim; El-gathar, Heba Emad; Mohamed, Takwa Rashwan

doi:10.21608/pssjn.2023.150542.1211

The Creative Climate and its Relation to Risk-Taking among Nurses at Port Said Hospitals

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ nursing administration, faculty of nursing, Port Said University

² Assistant professor of nursing administration, faculty of nursing, Port Said University

³ Lecturer of nursing administration, faculty of nursing, Port Said University

10.21608/pssjn.2023.150542.1211

Abstract

Background: In this competitive and ever-changing world, studying creativity and its predictors became important and is being greatly emphasized, particularly among nurses. Aimed of the study : to investigate the creative climate of nursing and its relation to risk-taking at Port Said hospitals. Subjects and Method: Design: A descriptive correlational research, Subjects: 291 nurses, Setting: This study was conducted at the governmental hospitals at Port Said. Tools: incorporated Situational Outlook Questionnaire and Risk-taking Questionnaire The Results: The work environment is perceived as having a moderate level of creativity by 56.7% of the nurses polled, a low level of creativity by 23.7%, and a high level of creativity by 19.6%. Moderate risk-taking levels as reported by 52.3% of the nurses polled, a high risk-taking level of 5.8%, and a low risk-taking level of 21.9%. Conclusion: There is a positive correlation between all dimension s and the total creative climate in all dimension s of risk-taking. Finally, there are statistically significant positive correlations between the creative climate and risk-taking among nurses Recommendations: The study suggested that nurses attend a workshop on how to foster a creative and risk-taking environment.

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