The Effect on Digital Literacy of Innovation Characteristics of Nursing Students'
Project no. 75593 · Status: Kapanmış · 2022
Summary
<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The aim of this study was to examine the effect of nursing students' innovativeness on digital literacy.</p><p><strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> The sample of this descriptive and relational study consisted of students (n=490) who were studying in the nursing department of three universities in Turkey between September and November 2022. In the collection of research data; The “Student Introduction Form”, “Individual Innovation Scale (PII)” and “Digital Literacy Scale (DLS)” were used. Data analyzes were performed in SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) 25 program and statistically evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> It was determined that the average age of the nursing students included in the study was 21.36±1.92 years and 34.3% of them were studying in the 3rd year of university. While 77.8% of the students who stated that they were satisfied with the nursing department, 77.3% defined themselves as innovative, 51.8% evaluated their digital literacy level as medium. The mean scores of the students' PII and DLS were determined as 69.77± 9.72 and 32.57±7.09, respectively. Gender, graduated high school, career plan, self-innovative status, evaluation of digital literacy level were the factors affecting students' individual innovativeness. It has been seen that the place where the students live now, the high school they graduated from and the evaluation of their digital literacy level are the factors affecting digital literacy. A statistically significant positive correlation was also found between individual innovativeness characteristics and digital literacy (r=.202; p<0.01).</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The findings obtained from the research showed that; The nursing students included in the sample are in the pioneer category on average according to their individual innovativeness characteristics. The digital literacy status is slightly above the intermediate level. Some introductory characteristics of students affect both their innovativeness and digital literacy. As students' innovativeness increases, their digital literacy also increases.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Nursing, students, innovation, digital literacy</p><p><strong> </strong></p>