Current status of innovative behaviors among nurses in public hospitals and its influencing factors: a cross-sectional study

The innovative behaviors of nurses are slightly above the average of previous studies. Nursing managers should first enhance their paradoxical leadership to improve nurses' creative self-efficacy and work engagement. Then, targeted intervention measures are implemented based on the characteristics of each group to enhance the professional quality and economic security of Innovation-Conservative and provide flexible and humanized scheduling for the Innovation-Exploratory, thereby effectively promoting the innovation of the entire nursing team.