The nurse is creating interventions for a client that are innovative and different. This nurse is demonstrating critical and creative thinking by:
a. needing to learn each new situation at his own pace.
b. following the status quo in order to provide safe care.
c. looking to authority figures for the right answers.
d. being able to transfer learning from one situation to another.
ANS: D
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