Creativity and Decision-Making Skills Essay Assignment
Please review all materials on creativity and decision-making to receive attendance credit for the week. Please write a 500-word reflection paper that discusses your key learning and how you might apply this learning. No need for additional research. Also, cite if you use outside sources. I will review these papers for credit but not provide feedback.
If papers are under 500 words, no credit will be given. Also, if papers are not submitted in Microsoft Word, a credit will not be given. There are no make-ups for the reflections paper that will count against your participation credit. Students can miss a total of 2 reflection papers and or live classes before points are taken off.
How to become more creative and make better decisions!
Dr. Craig Nathanson
Solving Problems Creatively
Creativity is an art and a science
Sometimes it takes a different perspective
Motion changes emotion
Sometimes it takes thinking about how you are going to think about it
Every decision is an opportunity to move forward
Solving Problems Creatively
The leaders job is inherently a problem-solving job
To be a leader of one’s self and others you must become a facilitator of the process of moving ideas and opportunities from here to there
Creativity
“… going deeper has a very practical value. Artists produce their best and most creative work when they aren’t afraid to take risks, to endure criticism or embarrassment or even failure. To me, such risk-taking is the primary challenge not just for an artist, but for any truly creative executive.”
Michael Eisner, Chaiman & CEO of Disney from “Managing a Creative Organization,”1996
Creativity
Involves the use of intuition, ingenuity, insight
Rather than narrowing down to “one best decision,” opening to create new possibilities, many alternatives
Outgrowth of training and experience
Creativity and Problem solving
The challenge
Present state
Desired state (Future)
If there is no difference between where you think you are and where you want to be; you have no challenge!
Thinking strategies
Our thinking creates problems that the same type of thinking will not solve (Einstein)
To Foster Creativity and solve challenges…(Dilts)
Think about the challenge in a different way then when it was created
Uncover and increase the solution space
Expand our perception of it
Find elements in the larger solution space that can solve it
Creativity cont.
Find limiting assumptions
Identify roadblocks
Identify/apply new resources
Use divergent thinking
Align to new goals and plans
The Walt Disney creative strategy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUAu62gr4bM
Walking as a strategy for creativity
To Foster Creativity…
sponsor, mentor, champion new ideas and their generators
relax, empty mind, take time
learn to listen to, trust intuition
“play” with ideas, games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqUfn9wOzZI
Ten steps to better creativity now!
Go outside more often
Move often
3.Draw pictures
4.Talk out loud
5.Reduce stress
6.Change your environment
7.Think from new perspectives
8.Use divergent thinking
9.Give yourself advice
10.Future pace
When you are deprived from play…
You get depressed!
Craig’s hanger and rusty can
How can your make your life more playful!
Course: NURS 2700 Foundations of Nursing/Health Promotion
Title of Assignment: Oral Presentation – Health Care Conference (HCC)
Guiding Principles
Clear Thinking: thinking through reasoning, creating, and reflecting
Effective Communication: integrating information with experience and expressing insights
Accepting Diversity: understanding and respecting individuals and local, regional, national, and global communities
Program Student Learning Outcomes:
#2: Apply leadership skills to enhance quality nursing care and improve health outcomes
Competencies Addressed:
#2A: Reflect on personal and professional actions that demonstrate leadership potential
#2F: Recognize the purpose of quality improvement methods
Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this assignment the student will:
#2: Demonstrate an awareness of the role of the professional nurse within organizational systems
#4: Describe how health promotion initiatives are organized and financed
Criteria for Assignment:
You are scheduled to present at a Health Care Conference. You are Registered Nurse in the community; presenting on the topic VAPING CESSATION. You will choose a local organization that supports your assigned topic. Registered Nurses must be involved in the organization.
The community has invited you to participate in a Health Fair/Presentation designed to enhance community knowledge about various health issues in the neighborhood. You are encouraged to make a PowerPoint presentation, but you can use whatever presentation software you choose to share with the participants.
Preparation:
Role of Professional Nurse:
Create a PowerPoint (alternative presentation software also permitted) including the following information:
How the registered nurse serves the community at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention related to your topic.
Brief description of the organization and how health promotion initiatives served by this organization are organized and financed (Example: How are the health promotion initiatives decided upon and where does the financing come from?).
Identify quality improvement methods the organization uses and identify the purpose of these.
Include any significant facts related to the topic and/or organization that may entice the learner’s interest.
: Demonstrate an awareness of the role of the professional nurse within organizational systems
#4: Describe how health promotion initiatives are organized and financed
Site your references using APA formatting, including in-text citations and include full reference at the end of your presentation Use of Resources (Required minimum, 3but more for full credits)
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Health Care Conference Participant:
You will be assigned a role as a member of the community attending the Health Care Conference:
Research the topic MOTORCYCLE SAFETY.
Prepare questions to ask the Professional Nurse who is presenting on this topic; especially things you may view as “grey areas.” You are attending the conference to gain knowledge on the topic. For example, if you are assigned to the topic “Elder Abuse”, you may be a victim of abuse, or “know someone you are concerned may be being abused.”
You will want to research actions of perpetrators and delve into some of the areas/topics where you, or someone you know, may have experienced abuse. As you research the topic, formulate questions surrounding ideas you believe a person in this situation may ask to assist them to move toward a healthier lifestyle/living situation.
Title of Assignment: Oral Presentation-Health Care Conference (HCC)
Guiding Principles
Clear Thinking: thinking through reasoning, creating, and reflecting
Effective Communication: integrating information with experience and expressing insights
Accepting Diversity: understanding and respecting individuals and local, regional, national, and global communities
Program Student Learning Outcomes:
#2: Apply leadership skills to enhance quality nursing care and improve health outcomes
Competencies Addressed:
#2A: Reflect on personal and professional actions that demonstrate leadership potential
#2F: Recognize the purpose of quality improvement methods
Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this assignment the student will:
#2: Demonstrate an awareness of the role of the professional nurse within organizational systems
#4: Describe how health promotion initiatives are organized and financed