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Investigation of Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Individual Innovation in Nurse Academicians- Hulya Leblebicioglu- Ege University

Hulya Leblebicioglu

Introduction: When considered changing health care needs, nursing profession needs profession members who are researchers, creative, able to reaching knowledge, information producing and knowledgeable. Thus entrepreneurial and innovative concepts are most important for nurses. When evaluated in terms of nursing profession, entrepreneurship is part of making decisions to improve the skills of nurses and can be applied in business environment, besides this, it is part of decision making in the career planning and development process that nurses undertake. Entrepreneurial nurses can operate in the marketing, public and private sectors. On the basis of entrepreneurial in nursing, there ability to solve a problem that exists in maintenance practices, ability to manage the process in the developing the product from idea, to evaluate the opportunities well and to commercialize the product. Nurses should be innovative to protect and improve health, to prevent diseases, to find better ways to care for and treat diseases, and to obtain new information. A nurse who can be characterized as innovative is a high-level practitioner who is responsible for transforming an innovative into a profitable product. An innovative nurse should be able to apply research results and blood-based product evaluation results at the same time while enabling the organization to reduce costs or make profits from practice