Abstract:

Nursing education should start to cultivate the creative abilities of nursing students due to the trend of expanding creative education by Ministry of Education and encouraging empowered the creativity of nurses by professional nursing organizations in Taiwan. Additionally, creative thinking has been listed by American Education Experts as the third important goal of cultivating nursing students. However, the scores of creativity in nursing students were lower than the management students. Nursing education currently should consider how to improve the creative thinking of nursing students. Overview of the literature indicated that the majority of creative studies were toward education field and few were in nursing field and especially lack of information about constructing creative thinking teaching course based on nursing field. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to construct the creative thinking teaching of RN-BSN based on the creative process of nurses. This study is to develop the creative thinking teaching course, including the content, strategies, activities, and the indicators of evaluating creativity for nursing students. The phenomenological design with purposive sampling to recruit nurses with the honored creative awards from 2003 until now in Taiwan and selected 20 samples by medical, surgical, maternal, pediatric, psychiatric, and community areas. The creative thinking teaching course in nursing field is expected to cultivate the creativity of RN-BSN, apply creative thinking abilities into clinical nursing, and increase the amounts of creative nursing products in the clinic settings.

(This study was approved by National Science Council NSC98-2511-S-242-001 from 8, 2009 to 7, 2010.)

Keywords:

Creativity, Nursing Education.