A student nurse resists when encouraged to be creative when providing client care. What should the nurse educator say to encourage this student to be creative?
1. "Creativity allows unique solutions to unique problems."
2. "Not all your answers are going to be from your textbook."
3. "Creativity makes nursing more fun."
4. "You'll get bored if you don't learn to be creative."
Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Creativity is thinking that results in the development of new ideas and products and is the ability to develop and implement new and better solutions. When nurses incorporate creativity into their thinking, they are able to find unique solutions to unique problems. Creativity does make the nurse look beyond the answers found in the text, but it also brings originality and individuality to nursing.
Rationale 2: This option does not address the reason creativity is a major component of critical thinking, and appears to dismiss the student's statement.
Rationale 3: This option doesn't address the reason for creativity in nursing and merely trivializes its importance.
Rationale 4: This option doesn't address the reason for creativity in nursing and merely provides a personal motive for creativity.
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