Individual psychological characteristics of personality as a component of psychological readiness of nursing staff for innovative activity

Background. The article reveals the problem of the psychological readiness of nurses to operate in the context of innovation. The theoretical part of the article substantiates the relevance of the problem in modern conditions of reality. The need to study these phenomena is emphasized. The provisions necessary for understanding the psychological readiness are disclosed, which formed the basis for concretizing the definition of "psychological readiness of nurses for activities in the context of innovation", which is considered as "integral education", "complex synthetic education", consisting of a complex of diverse, interconnected elements. Purpose. The goal is to study the relationship of innovative readiness, its structural components (emotional, motivational, cognitive, personal and organizational) and individual characteristics of a person. Methods and techniques. The methods of psychodiagnostic research, including V.V. Panteleev and T.P. Knysheva questionnaire of innovative readiness of personnel, I.A. Usatov questionnaire for determining the level of stress resistance of the personality, A.D. Ishkov and N.G. Miloradov diagnostic questionnaire for self-organization features, Kirton's questionnaire, questionnaire for determining "communicative and organizational inclinations, V.V. Sinyavsky and B.A. Fedoroshin Test on communicative and organizational skills, Karpov's reflexivity questionnaire, Yu.M. Orlov and V. I. Shkurkin questionnaire of achievement needs were used in the current study. The findings of the research were analyzed using the method of mathematical statistics. The search query included 80 members of the nursing staff of the Clinics of Samara State Medical University. Results. The article investigated the characteristics of the structural components of the psychological readiness of nurses for the work in the context of innovations (motivational, emotional-volitional, cognitive, and personal), as well as individual psychological components of the personality, such as the need for achievement, communicative and organizational skills, innovative thinking, stress tolerance, reflectivity, self-organization, goal-setting skills, abilities for situation analysis, planning, self-control, correction and willpower. After conducting a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the research results, the data were processed using a rank correlation coefficient. This allowed to identify a direct relationship between the components of psychological readiness and personality characteristics.