The nurse manager meets with new employees to discuss the employees? insights from previous experiences and to discuss possible solutions to issues. Which describes this process?
1. Insight
2. Verification
3. Preparation
4. Incubation
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Explanation: 1. Incubation encourages new employees to offer suggestions about solutions to problems based
on their past experiences. Insight is the ability of the nurse manager to realize limitations to
innovative thinking and to develop strategies to foster creativity. Verification is a climate
produced by the nurse manager that recognizes the value of potentially useful ideas.
Preparation is a step of creativity that focuses mainly on planning.
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