A nurse manager is committed to establishing an environment that supports critical thinking and creativity. What strategies would help in this effort? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply.
A) Provide opportunities for staff to interact with nurses from outside the facility.
B) Give the nurses freedom to design their work environment.
C) Create a spreadsheet for nurses to complete describing their creative efforts.
D) Assign each nurse 15 minutes during a staff meeting to talk about his or her creative efforts.
E) Be receptive to ideas even if they seem strange at the beginning.

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1. Exposure to new ideas and a fresh environment outside the facility increases creativity.
2. Freedom is necessary to support the creative process.
3. Filling in a spreadsheet is a bureaucratic, regimented strategy that will not foster creativity.
4. Making creativity an assignment is a sure way to stifle it.
5. Being receptive to new ideas encourages creativity.

A Nurse Manager Is Committed to Establishing an Environment That