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• Creativity is the ability to transcend traditional
ideas ,rules ,relationship or the like and to
create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods,
interpretation etc.
• Creativity is the ability to see problems in
different ways and to generate new or
significant solutions for resolving problems in
a new way.

• According to Ruger, “creativity is the emergence in
action of a novel relational product growing out of the
uniqueness of the individual on the one hand the
materials events , people or circumstances of his life
on the other hand.”
• Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or
recognize ideas, alternative or possibilities that may
be useful in solving problems ,communicating with
others and entertaining ourselves and others.

• Acccording to stein, “creativity can be
described in both interpersonal and
intrapersonal process. Intrapersonal process is
an important aspect of creativity because the
person in act of creating need to be in touch
with inner self.”
• Thinking is creativity, but not all thinking is
creative in nature.

According to Alex Osborne , human have 4 basic
mental powers.
• Absorptive : the ability to observe and to pay
attention
• Retentive: the ability to retain, memorize and recall
• Reasoning: the ability to analyze and to judge
• Creative: the ability to visualize, foresees, generate
ideas , be imaginative, developing our mind to
think

• Through the first two mental powers,
individuals learn and through the last two, they
think.

States of Thinking
1. Vertical thinking or sequential thinking:
It is logical and expected thinking. It is a
progressive thought based or sequence of steps or
building blocks of thinking. The vertical thinking is
like building a house with blocks. Vertical thinking
is right but sometime it prevents us from being
creative by preventing new ideas to come to us. For
example, vertical thinker would tend to drill a well
for oil. He would drill some hole deeper and deeper
till he finds the oil.

2. Lateral thinking:
It is rather unexpected thinking. The ability is expanded to
think in new direction. This thinking process breaks the
habit of being logical and opens the mind to other
directions. It is not sequential. It doesn’t have to progress
from one steps to another. Thinking can move from one
place to another skipping some and then returning to it
later. Lateral thinking enhances the possibility of
discovering new and different approaches to solve
problems. For example, lateral thinker would drill several
wells in different locations for oil.

3. Creative thinking:
It is a different thought process and not fully
understood. Creative thinking stretches the mind in
order to use its imagination. It is the discovery stage.
It is important to realize that an individual must be
knowledgeable in an area to see the possibilities and
make connections, which is possible, but for a mind
that thinks creatively, anything is possible. For
example, for the solution of oil crisis they study the
effects of wave, winds and may also use solar power.

4. The fourth dimensional thinking:
It is unexplainable and extrasensory
perception, this thinking is cosmic, intuitive
and holistic. There is a sixth sense and higher
energy level between. It is an extrasensory
perception (ESP) but there is no enough
supportive scientific data.

The ESP can be divided into 5 areas.
Telepathy: The communication of thoughts or feeling
from one mind to another without normal use of the
senses. Thought transference from one person to
another.
Clairvoyance: The ability to perceive objects or events
without use of senses e.g. imagination of murder or
some other creativity. The power of seeing in the
mind either future events or things that exist or are
happening out of sight.

Precognition: ability to perceive future events
e.g. famine, flood, earthquakes etc.
Déjà vu: The illusion that one has previously
had the given experience.
Psycho kinesis: A mental operation that affects
an object or an energy system. e.g. objects
moving across the room, bending the spoon
etc.

Personality condition related to creativity
• Capacity to be puzzled
• Ability to concentrate
• Experiencing I
• Ability to adjust to conflict or tension
• Willing to be born every day.

• Capacity to be puzzled : mostly children have
this personality ,for example wondering about
new things, but this natures disappears when
they go through the process of education .
• To be puzzled is one of the characters of
creative person, they can stretch their mind to
think in different ways and generate many
ideas for the problem.

Ability to concentrate:
Concentration means putting all one’s
attention on something ,and keeping it there
for as long as wishes to. the ability to
concentrate is a skill that requires a lot of self
discipline. It helps to concentrate their mind to
ideas and ways at those points where they
hope to get solutions.

Experiencing I:
This one is related to having an insight of
oneself. Creative person should go through
oneself to see what is withhinhim/her. This
allows person to develop the sense of self, his
true worth by coming up with answer to
question who am I? what I am doing here?
what are my responsibilities?

Ability to adjust to conflict or tension:
Conflict happens everywhere, between friends, classroom,
in the workplace etc. knowledge of conflict management
creates confidence and decease stress wherever conflict
occurs. Personality with creativity has the ability to adjust
to conflicts or tensions in a suitable manner. Courage is
developed in bringing any changes in any new solution
and to be involved in new environment. During upbringing
of children, they are taught to avoid conflicts as if it were
something harmful. But sometimes conflicts may bring
ideas.

Willingness to be born everyday
This is a very important aspect of the creative personality.
The person should treat ourselves as a person born every
day as a fresh day full of promises. This makes them
energetic , creative, challenging, competitive, courageous
and concerned. If all the conditions for creativity are
fulfilled, the person develops a willingness to be born
every day that is the person develops an acceptance of
change and researching for new experience and new
technique and wants to create everything per day. For
example: artists, fashion designers, writers and poets.

Stages of creative problem solving
According to Graham walls (1926),the stages
of problem with the objective of coming up
with creative solution are as follows:
• Preparation stage
• Incubation stage
• Illumination or insight
• Verification

Preparation stage
It is the preparation for personal change. Person
freely exposed with subjects by defining the
problem, need or desire and gathering any
information related to problem or concern.
Preparatory work on a problem that focuses the
individuals mind on the problem and explores
the dimensions of the problems. Preparation
lasts for minutes, weeks and even years.

Incubation stage
The problem is internalized into the unconscious
mind and nothing appears externally to be happening.
The creative thinker unconsciously considers and
works on possible solutions or decisions. Subject is
allowed to pass from the conscious mind to the
preconscious mind for thinking or incubatory. It is the
time for stepping back from the problem and letting
the mind completely work through. Like preparation,
incubation lasts for minutes, weeks and even years.

Illumination or insight Stage
Ideas arise from the mind to provide the basis of a
creative response. these ideas can be pieces of the
whole or entity all at once. Creative ideas bursts forth
from its preconscious processing into conscious
awareness. The consciousness mind is filled with
new insight ,possibilities for solving the problems or
gaining insight. Unlike the other stages illumination
is very brief involving a very/ tremendous rush of
insights for minutes or hours

Verification stage
The idea is consciously verified ,elaborated, and
then applied. It consists of logical thinking and use
the preconscious or creative thinking to get in
touch with the feeling of self, profession etc.
Activities are carried out to demonstrate whether
or not what emerged in illumination satisfies the
need and criteria defined in preparation stage.
Testing the new possibilities in reality and trying
out the possibilities.

Process of creative problem solving
• Objective finding-identify ,goal, wish or
challenge
• Fact finding-
• Problem finding
• Idea finding
• Solution finding
• Acceptance finding

Objective finding-identify ,goal, wish or challenge
What is goal, wish or challenge upon which individual
want to work?
Fact finding- gather data
It tries to identify all facts related to the problem. Facts can
be gathered from personal experience or from individuals,
literatures, other personal records with related situation
etc. If the problem concerns a situation, then remember 5
ws-What’s the situation or background? Who is involved,
what’s involved, when, where, and why it is important?

Problem finding-clarify the problem
• What is the problem that really needs to be
focus on?
• What is the concerned that really needs to be
addressed? That is making sure you’re focusing
on the right problem. It is possible to come up
with the right answer to the wrong problem .
Redefine what you want or what’s stopping
you.

Idea finding- generate ideas
• What are all the possible solutions for how to solve the
problem ? Generating ideas is much more than
brainstroming .during this step ,be vigilant about
deferring judgement and coming up with wild , out of the
box ideas.
• This is where you explore ideas that are possible
solution and have the must fun. It is also where you need
to stretch to make connection take risks and try new
combinations to find potentially innovative solutions.

Solution finding
• Select and strengthen solutions
• First, try to strengthen and improve the best ideas
generated
• Next, generate the criteria that need to be considered to
evaluate the ideas for success.
• Apply that criteria to the top ideas and decide which are
most likely to solve the refined problem.
• The best ideas need to meet criteria that make it
actionable before it becomes the solution.a creative idea
is not really useful if it wont be implemented.

Acceptance finding
• Plan for action
• What are all action that needs to take place in
order to implement your solution?
• Look at who is responsible ,what has to be
done by when ,and what resources are
available in order to realize this ideas a full –
fledged , activation solution.

Techniques for Thinking Creatively
• Brainstroming
• Divergent Thinking
• Synthesis
• Analogies
• Mind Mapping

Brainstroming
• Brainstorming combines a relaxed, informal
approach to problem solving with lateral thinking. It
encourages people to come up with thoughts and
ideas that can, at first, seem a bit crazy.
• Some of these ideas can be crafted into original,
creative solutions to a problem, while others can
spark even more ideas. This helps to get people
unstuck by "jolting" them out of their normal ways of
thinking.

• Therefore, during brainstorming sessions,
people should avoid criticizing or rewarding
ideas.
• You're trying to open up possibilities and break
down incorrect assumptions about the
problem's limits.
• Judgment and analysis at this stage stunts idea
generation and limit creativity.

• Brainstroming can be:
– Individual brainstorming: While group
brainstorming is often more effective at generating
ideas than normal group problem solving,
several studies have shown that individual
brainstorming produces more – and often better –
ideas than group brainstorming.

– Group brainstorming : Group brainstorming is
often more effective for solving complex
problems. When one member gets stuck with an
idea, another member's creativity and experience
can take the idea to the next stage. You can
develop ideas in greater depth with group
brainstorming than you can with individual
brainstorming.

Divergent Thinking
• The psychologist J.P. Guilford first coined the terms
divergent thinking in 1956.
• Divergent thinking is a thought process or method
used to generate creative ideas by exploring many
possible solutions. It typically occurs in a spontaneous,
free-flowing, "non-linear" manner, such that many
ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion.

• Many possible solutions are explored in a short
amount of time, and unexpected connections
are drawn
• Following divergent thinking, ideas and
information are organized and structured
using convergent thinking, which follows a
particular set of logical steps to arrive at one
solution, which in some cases is a "correct"
solution.

• Activities which promote divergent thinking include
creating lists of questions, setting aside time for
thinking and meditation, brainstorming, subject
mapping, bubble mapping, keeping a journal,
playing tabletop role-playing
games,creating artwork, and free writing.
• In free writing, a person will focus on one particular
topic and write non-stop about it for a short period
of time, in a stream of consciousness fashion.

Synthesis
• Synthesizing simply means combining. Instead
of summarizing the main points of each source
in turn, you put together the ideas and findings
of multiple sources in order to make an overall
point.
• At the most basic level, this involves looking
for similarities and differences between your
sources.

• Synthesizing involves both critical and creative
thinking. It involves students in processing what
they have learned to form a new idea,
perspective, or opinion or to generate insight.
• Synthesizing requires the reader to take that
summary or partial retelling and add in their
own thoughts, experiences, opinions,
interpretations and connections to generate a new,
and bigger idea -- it's going beyond the text.

Analogies
• Analogy is a cognitive process of
transferring information or meaning from a particular
subject (the analog, or source) to another (the target), or
a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process.
• In a narrower sense, analogy is an inference or
an argument from one particular to another particular, as
opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction, in which at
least one of the premises, or the conclusion, is general
rather than particular in nature.

• The term analogy can also refer to the relation
between the source and the target themselves, which
is often (though not always) a similarity, as in
the biological notion of analogy.
• Analogy plays a significant role in problem solving,
as well as decision
making, argumentation, perception, generalization,
memory, creativity, invention,
prediction, emotion, explanation, conceptualization a
nd communication.

Mind Mapping
• A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize
information. A mind map is hierarchical and shows
relationships among pieces of the whole.
• It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an
image in the center of a blank page, to which associated
representations of ideas such as images, words and parts
of words are added.
• Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept,
and other ideas branch out from those major ideas.

• Mind maps can also be drawn by hand, either as
"notes" during a lecture, meeting or planning
session, for example, or as higher quality pictures
when more time is available. Mind maps are
considered to be a type of spider diagram.
• It has been largely used in
learning, brainstorming, memory, visual thinking,
and problem solving by educators, engineers,
psychologists, and others.

The importance of creativity in nursing
• As the complexity of healthcare and nursing
escalates, nurses are asked to offer innovative
solutions in nursing care practices. Dealing
with patients of different ages, health
conditions and backgrounds have made
creativity a crucial element in nursing duties.

Nurses who integrate creativity in patient care
can reduce costs to the healthcare system and
support the development of nursing practices.
1. Creativity encourages patient’s cooperation
and greater satisfaction

• Creativity greatly improves patients’ co-
operation and satisfaction.
• When providing care for a child patient, a
nurse can use toys to enhance co-operation.
This will also lead to greater compliance to
drug regimens and dressing changes. Prior to
discharge, the nurse may also use handcrafts to
express her warm wishes for the patient.

2. Creativity enables modifications to patient care
Creativity can be adapted to nursing practices and
modify the way patient care is conveyed. For
instance, a stretcher that is equipped with a cassette
for taking X-rays is a great innovation, especially
for patients with multiple traumas. This provides
ease for the staff and their patients, as there is
lesser need to move the patient from the stretcher
to the radiology bed.

3.Creativity escalates nurses’ self-belief and respect
The consistent expressing of creative ideas in a working
unit will help the nurse to achieve self-belief and
happiness. From day to day, she will realise that
discovering new innovations and ideas are fun aspects of
the job.
It will also constantly give her an intrinsic satisfaction and
a sense of pride. A nurse who used her creativity in care
routines expresses that “the first thing that creativity had
for me is self-belief.

• In short, creativity is the main engine for the
development of healthcare workers and
organizations.

• Creativity enables nurse to cope with difficult and
complex situations by generating new ideas and
applying non-traditional techniques in ways that were
never used previously.
• Studies have shown that doing artistic work may
encourage students to 'think outside the box,' that is,
to be creative.
• Nurse educators have been asking students to create
music, poems, drawings and sculptures as a way of
stimulating creativity.

• It helped the human spirit and did not demand
high costs or expensive technology or resources.
Nurses need to embrace their creativity and apply
it to their practice. It strengthens nursing practices
and approaches. It is authentic and improves our
disposition by enabling us to share ourselves and
personalities. In a global society, creativity is a
resource that we all can use in nursing practice.

Creativity is important in nursing for following
reasons:
– To solve the problem creatively
– Become competent professional
– To maintain effective communication in
therapeutic environment
– Become more independent than average
– To provide effective client centered care

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