Investigation of Creative Thinking Skills of Students in Nursing Education (Sample of Gümüşhane)

This study was conducted to determine the creative thinking skills of the nursing students of a university. Creativity is not creating something that is not in reality, but revealing what exists. It is stated that problem solving is also related to creative intelligence, which is not only related to human intelligence. Nursing is a problem-solving skill. The nursing process is a method by which the nurse combines problem solving and creative thinking skills and finds an effective solution. For this reason, a system that improves the creativity and problem solving skills of students should be used instead of a memorization system in nursing education curriculum. A descriptive study was conducted between April-May 2017. The universe of the research was composed of students (n = 400) from the Faculty of Health Sciences, Nursing Department of Gümüşhane University. 67,1% of the students who participated in the survey stated that they are female and 59,2% are in the 21-24 age group, 60% are equal to the income and the most frequent is the 20.4% of the Mediterranean, 20.4% of the Blacksea. In addition, when the results of the scale were considered in terms of 5 categories of individual innovation, it was determined that 158 students who were under 46 points in our study were in the fifth category (traditionists) with 62.4. It has been determined that the students who participated in the study entered into the group of traditionists in a big way and this result suggests that the training programs related to creativity are needed. When we examined the individual innovation levels of students in our study, it was seen that the level of innovation of the students was low. From the point of view of these results, nursing curriculum should provide students with opportunities to improve problem-solving skills and develop creative thinking skills.