The nurse manager has scheduled a series of meetings with employees to solve a unit problem. The manager purposefully created a 2-week gap in the meetings to allow which portion of the creative process to occur?
1. Farsight
2. Verification
3. Preparation
4. Incubation
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Rationale 1: Farsight is not part of this process.
Rationale 2: Verification is evaluation of the solution's effectiveness.
Rationale 3: Preparation is planning time.
Rationale 4: The period of lapsed time before a decision is made is the "incubation" time.
Global Rationale:
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