Background: Innovation strategies improve health outcomes, addresses health crisis, leads to higher-quality care, and boosts productivity for healthcare organizations as well as patients. Additionally, healthcare organizations must concentrate on innovation to lessen the negative effects of economic and health crises. Aimed to examine the relationship between nurse managers' innovation and crisis management at healthcare organizations. Subjects and methods: Design: A correlational research design was utilized in this study. Setting: the study was carried out at Belkas Central Hospital. Subjects: the study sample consisted of all nurse managers working in the study setting (63). Tools: two tools were used for data collection: Tool I: consisted of two parts: Part 1: Personal data, and Part 2: Innovative work behavior scale. Tool II: Crisis management questionnaire. Results: The findings indicated that less than half of the nurse managers under examination exhibited highly innovative work behavior. In comparison, approximately half of them demonstrated moderate innovation. However, all nurse managers have exceptional crisis management abilities across various stages of crisis management, particularly in the latter two stages. Conclusion: The analysis revealed no statistically significant association between the degree of creativity exhibited by nurse managers and their proficiency in crisis management. Recommendations: It is necessary to provide nurse managers with guidelines and training courses to improve their innovation ability. More research is recommended.
Crisis management, health care organizations, innovation, nurse managers.