Promoting meaningful learning is one of the main objective of education and an important factor in promoting students creative thinking, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities in learners.
Due to development of educational system and importance in the nursing profession, the necessity of using appropriate instructional methods for new theoretical and procedural skills is clear.
The concept map is a method for facilitating thinking, teaching,learning and assessment.the present investigators aimed to evaluate and compare procedural skills and creativity in two groups,using(concept-map)or not using it(traditional).we used a quasi-experimental study on two groups with pre(creativity)-post test design(procedural skill-creativity),70 first semester nursing students were selected through convenience sampling and then randomly divided into two groups(experimental and control). After pretest,control and experimental group received education for 4 sessions during 1month, either lecturing method or concept map, respectively.the teaching schedule comprised 4 sessions of practical fundamental of nursing concerning :Intra venus Canulation,Intramascular injection,airway suctioning and Nasogastric tube.then,used a post test at the end of second and fourth week of teaching for procedural skills(checklist) and for creativity(by Abedi creativity questionnaire), respectively. The data were analyzed using SPSS statistical software (Version 22).