Several nurses on an adolescent psychiatric unit complain that the teens are becoming unmana-geable on the 0700-1900 shift. To resolve this problem, the nurse manager decides that the staff should have a brainstorming session
The goal of brainstorming is to: a. Evaluate problem solutions.
b. Critique the ideas of others.
c. Generate as many solutions as possible.
d. Identify only practical and realistic ideas.
C
Brainstorming encourages creativity when one is beginning to problem-solve and avoids prema-ture shutting down of ideas through early evaluation. The goal is to generate ideas, no matter how seemingly unrealistic or absurd.
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