Team interaction behaviors correlates with team creativity among nursing students: Canonical correlation and moderation analyses.

Background: Prior studies have indicated team members' interaction behaviors may predict creativity among nursing students.

Methods: This study investigated the correlation between interaction behaviors and creativity, both individual- and team-level, among nursing students. In this cross-sectional quantitative study, data were obtained from self-reported questionnaires.

Effects of the design thinking pedagogy on design thinking competence of nursing students in Taiwan: A prospective non-randomized study.

Background: Design thinking pedagogy was commonly adopted in higher education across professional fields, but not in nursing education. To enhance design thinking competence of nursing students, integrating design thinking pedagogy has been suggested.

Objective: To assess the effect of incorporating design thinking pedagogy into Leadership Development courses on design thinking competence in nursing students.

Measuring design thinking competence in Taiwanese nursing students: a cross-cultural instrument adaptation.

Background: Design thinking (DT) competence, a creative problem-solving ability, has been investigated extensively among college students in various professional fields within the western cultures. No instrument, however, is available for assessing DT competence in nursing students, particularly, those in non-western cultures.

Objective: To adapt and validate the use of Creative Synthesis Inventory (CSI) assessing the four components (i.

Design thinking competence as self-perceived by nursing students in Taiwan: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Competence in design thinking plays a pivotal role when undertaking innovative problem-solving. Our knowledge on nursing students' self-perceived design thinking competence, however, is noticeably lacking, particularly in Taiwan.

Object: To examine Taiwanese nursing students' self-perceived competence in design thinking.

Investigating the pathways between swift trust and team creativity among nursing student teams in Taiwan: A moderated mediation model.

Background: Considerable theoretical and empirical work indicates that a multitude of factors are associated with team creativity in an organizational context. The complex relationships between the contributors, however, are not well understood in nursing education. This study was to take a process view investigating the pathways from swift trust to creativity via collaborative interactions and to explore whether task conflict would further change the strength of the indirect effect.

Performative Masculinity: A META-Ethnography of Experiences of Men in Academic and Clinical Nursing.

Gender differences and stereotypes have been widely studied. Performative masculinity or "doing gender" is the adoption of traits considered to be "masculine" to achieve acceptance in society. Performative masculinity, as it relates to career development for men in nursing, could be affected by internal attitudes and career choice, and external influences of culture.

Psychological distress among first-year health science students in Taiwan.

Background: Most first-year college/university students are adolescents or young adults and therefore are at high risk of developing psychological distress symptoms. Little is known about psychological distress among first-year university students in Taiwan, especially those studying health science-related fields.

Objective: To understand the prevalence of psychological distress and its five dimensions (depression and anxiety, self-harm, impulsivity, and psychiatric disturbance) and explore the relationship between student-specific variables (enrollment year, age, sex, program duration, and college) and psychological distress.

Development and Psychometric Testing of a Taiwanese Team Interactions and Team Creativity Instrument (TITC-T) for Nursing Students.

Background: How well team members work together can be affected by team interactions and creativity. There is no single instrument for measuring both variables in healthcare education settings in Taiwan. The purpose of this study is to develop an instrument to measure team interactions and team creativity for Taiwanese nursing students.

Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Teaching on Creativity: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Little is known about the effectiveness of Interdisciplinary teaching (IDT) in higher education, particularly for healthcare education in Taiwan. It is vital to determine if IDT could enhance divergent creative thinking and team creativity among nursing students. A quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design.

The Moderating Role of Team Conflict on Teams of Nursing Students.

Inter-professional education has become a widespread trend in healthcare education around the world. This study examined whether conflict moderated the correlation between swift trust and creativity for nursing students on teams in inter-professional education courses in Taiwan. A cross-sectional survey study with comparative, quantitative analysis was conducted to describe relationships between the studied variables.

Promoting creativity of nursing students in different teaching and learning settings: A quasi-experimental study.

Background: Interdisciplinary teaching provides students with multiple perspectives through instruction from faculty and students in other academic areas. Providing interdisciplinary teaching to students in nursing and interdisciplinary programs could help foster collaborations between students in nursing and students in fields such as design or engineering, which could expand students' understanding of the skills required to develop a working prototype.

Objective: To evaluate whether there is an effect of interdisciplinary teaching on nursing students' creative thinking abilities.

Effect of interdisciplinary teaching on collaborative interactions among nursing student teams in Taiwan: A quasi-experimental study.

Background: Empirical research has demonstrated the academic, collaborative, and organizational benefits of Interdisciplinary Teaching. However, few studies have examined the effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Teaching in higher education, particular in healthcare education in Taiwan. In addition, there is no consensus on how the effectiveness of this form of teaching should be evaluated.

The effects of web-based situational learning on nursing students' transfer of learning in clinical practice.

Background: Transferring what has been learned in the classroom to clinical application is the main goal of nursing education. Our previous intervention study, in which a web-based interactive situational teaching strategy in a nursing ethic course was conducted as an experimental group, and the students in the class who were taught using a traditional teaching strategy was treated as the comparative group. The results, which were evaluated immediately after the class, showed that the web-based interactive situational teaching enhanced the students' competency in ethical reasoning and problem solving compared to traditional teaching.

Moderating effects of task interdependence on interaction behaviours and creativity for nursing students on interdisciplinary teams.

Aims: Nursing students in Taiwan often study in interdisciplinary teams that must create healthcare products. Creativity is imperative for the students' success, but studies have not explored the relational precursors to team creativity in nursing education. Therefore, the relationship was examined between task interdependence, interaction behaviours (constructive controversy, helping behaviours and spontaneous communication) and creativity for nursing students on interdisciplinary teams in Taiwan to investigate whether high task interdependence moderates the correlations between interaction behaviours and creativity.

Predictors of individually perceived levels of team creativity for teams of nursing students in Taiwan: A cross-sectional study.

Background: The complexity of healthcare and concurrent advances in technology have promoted Interprofessional Education (IPE) in healthcare schools to prepare students to collaborate on interdisciplinary teams. Since 2016, healthcare curricula in Taiwan have incorporated IPE-based capstone courses to enhance creativity. To better understand the predictors of team creativity could help educators improve IPE and outcomes for nursing students and patients.

The relationship between swift trust and interaction behaviors on interdisciplinary and non-interdisciplinary teams in nursing education.

The extent to which team interdisciplinarity affects trust and communicative interaction behaviors in healthcare settings has received limited attention. Undergraduate nursing students must understand and work with interdisciplinary team-based dynamics. This study examined the relationship between swift trust and interaction behaviors among nursing student teams and explored whether team interdisciplinarity moderated that relationship.

Inter-professional nursing education and the roles of swift trust, interaction behaviors, and creativity: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey.

Background: Technological advances in medicine have generated an increase in the complexity of delivering quality medical care, which is a challenge to the healthcare system. Improving interdisciplinary teamwork among all healthcare staff is one approach to meeting these new challenges. Interdisciplinary teamwork can be improved through inter-professional teaching in nursing education, which provides instruction from at least two professions to teams of students from different specialties.

Conflict and interactions on interdisciplinary nursing student teams: The moderating effects of spontaneous communication.

Background: Recently, empirical researchers have observed direct associations between conflict and interaction behaviors within organizational teams. However, research concerning indirect links between conflict and interaction behaviors on interdisciplinary teams in nursing school is scant, particularly in Taiwan.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the relationships among various types of conflict and interaction behaviors on interdisciplinary nursing education teams.

Construction of an integrated sexual function questionnaire for women with breast cancer.

Objective: With the increasing incidence of breast cancer in young women, its side effects have extended into the sexual lives of women. However, an appropriate tool to measure the sexual function is nonexistent. The aim of this study was to develop a suitable tool to measure sexual function in women with breast cancer.

Predictors of self-perceived levels of creative teaching behaviors among nursing school faculty in Taiwan: A preliminary study.

Background: Many nursing programs include a capstone project as part of the nursing curriculum. In Taiwan, these courses involve development of healthcare products. A student's success can depend on faculty's ability to employ creative teaching behaviors.

Factors affecting nursing students' creativity in Taiwan: Exploring the moderating role of creative personality.

Background: The relationships between a school's creative climate, students' creative personality, and students' creative thinking have not been explored in the context of nursing students in healthcare schools in Taiwan.

Design: This cross-sectional descriptive study examined how both school creative climate and creative personality interact with the creative thinking abilities of nursing students in Taiwan, and whether the students' personality moderates the relationship between the other two variables.

Methods: Seventy-four nursing faculties provided subjective assessments of the environment of a healthcare school in Taiwan, as measures of school creative climate.

Effect of creativity training on teaching for creativity for nursing faculty in Taiwan: A quasi-experimental study.

Background: Creativity and innovation are considered important core competencies in Taiwan for nursing students. Teachers play a critical role in the development of student creativity. Although studies have investigated creativity training, there is no consensus on how best to evaluate the effectiveness of the training.

The relationship of personal competencies, social adaptation, and job adaptation on job satisfaction.

Background: Personal competencies are associated with successful job performance. Job satisfaction is directly related to nursing turnover, and is a critical indicator of their performance and quality of patient care. However, little is known about the relationship between personal competencies, social adaptation, and job adaptation on job satisfaction for nurses.

Perceived Self-Efficacy of Teaching for Creativity Among Nurse Faculty in Taiwan: A Preliminary Study.

Many health care education programs, particularly those in Taiwan, have begun offering capstone product-based curricula, not only to improve nursing students' problem-solving skills but also to foster creativity and innovation regarding health care issues. This study used a cross-sectional quantitative design to explore the efficacy of teaching for creativity among nurse faculty in Taiwan. Results showed knowledge of intellectual property rights was low, as was ability to creatively evaluate trademark and patent designs.