Nursing postgraduates' innovative behaviour, influencing factors and educational requirements: a national cross-sectional study
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Innovative behaviours are important for nursing postgraduates who are a significant reserve for future nursing career, thinking critically, utilizing technologies and solving complex problems. In nursing undergraduates’ education, innovative behaviour is closely linked with the development of professional identity. However, there are limited studies exploring innovative behaviours, influencing factors and educational requirements of nursing postgraduates. To investigate nursing postgraduates’ innovative behaviour, influencing factors, and the correlation between innovative behaviour and professional identity. Moreover, exploring nursing postgraduates’ requirements for innovational education. A national descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among postgraduate students in Chinese nursing schools between October and November 2022. A general information questionnaire, The Nurses’ Innovative Behaviour Scale, the Professional Identity Questionnaire for Nurse Student, and a multiple-choice question about students’ innovation education requirements were collected. The independent-sample t -test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), multiple linear regression, and Pearson’s correlation analyses were conducted. This study recruited 426 nursing postgraduates from 44 nursing schools across China. The mean score of innovative behaviour of nursing postgraduates was 38.96 ± 4.90 (min-max 10–50). Nursing postgraduates’ professional identity was positively correlated with innovative behaviour ( r = 0.436, P < 0.01). Participants who read scientific literature frequently, had a high level of professional identity, and grew up in urban areas had high levels of innovative behaviour (adjusted R 2 = 0.244, P < 0.001). It was determined that the level of innovative behaviour is associated with their professional identity and the frequence of reading scientific literature in nursing postgraduates. It is imperative for educators to foster an environment that encourages postgraduate nursing students to engage with a wider array of scholarly literature and elevates postgraduate nursing students’ professional identity. Furthermore, the dissemination of advanced knowledge and the adoption of diverse pedagogical approaches are likely to meet the innovative demands of nursing postgraduates.
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“Although few studies have directly examined the link between PI and TIB among teachers, research in broader organizational contexts has consistently shown that PI relates to individual innovative behavior (Lin and Chang, 2022; Zhu et al., 2025).”
- Authors
- Zhu, J., Yuan, S., Pu, L., Martin-Payo, R., Wei, L., Qiu, M., & Zhang, F.
- Affiliations
- Sichuan University (CN)
- Erasmus MC (NL)
- Sichuan International Studies University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Zhang, Fengying
- Venue
- BMC Medical Education
- Published
- 2025-01-18
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 89-89
- ISSN
- 1472-6920 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC11742754
- OpenAlex
- W4406578751
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 81
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 3
- FWCI
- 12.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- BMC Medical Education (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- the National Steering Committee for Postgraduate Education of Medical Degrees (A_YXC2022-02-02_05)
- the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province Project (2024YFFK0128)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Leadership and Management › Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Nursing education and management
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Issues, ethics and legal aspects › Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Keywords
- innovative behavior, professional identity, nursing education, educational requirements, reading scientific literature, urban upbringing, influencing factors, teaching methods
- MeSH terms
- Adult, China, Cross-Sectional Studies, Education, Nursing, Graduate, Female, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Students, Nursing, Young Adult
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