Creativeness

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Report: CPOE adoption a long-term process.

Report may be first to focus on community hospitals. Key measure in hospital selection was physician adoption rate. Community hospitals face additional challenges since physicians are not ...
(Healthcare Benchmarks Qual Improv, 200309)
report-cpoe-adoption-long-term-process.asp

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How to pitch a brilliant idea.

Coming up with creative ideas is easy; selling them to strangers is hard. Entrepreneurs, sales executives, and marketing managers often go to great lengths to demonstrate how their new concepts are practical and profitable--only to be rejected by ...
Kimberly D Elsbach (Harv Bus Rev, 200309)
pitch-brilliant-idea.asp

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Are phenomenology and postpositivism strange bedfellows?

Researchers are advocating that a necessary condition of scholarly research is congruence between philosophical positions and research approaches. Phenomenology and postpositivism, traditionally, may appear to be situated in scientific inquiry as polar ...
Frances E Racher, Steven Robinson (West J Nurs Res, 200308)
phenomenology-postpositivism-strange-bedfellows.asp

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Primary care practices are full of surprises!

Primary care practices are complex adaptive systems facing the need to respond to internal and external uncertainty and surprise. For clinicians and practices to maximize their ability to proactively evolve as they respond to uncertainty and surprise, ...
Benjamin F Crabtree (Health Care Manage Rev, 200307-09)
primary-care-practices-full-surprises.asp

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Surprise, Surprise, Surprise! A complexity science view of the unexpected.

Surprise can emanate from two sources: lack of sufficient information or knowledge and the basic dynamics of complex adaptive systems. The authors expand the traditional view of surprise with a complexity perspective that makes it possible to ask new ...
Reuben R McDaniel, Michelle E Jordan, Brigitte F Fleeman (Health Care Manage Rev, 200307-09)
surprise-surprise-surprise-complexity-science-view-unexpected.asp

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What to do when trying harder is not the answer.

I talk with many health care senior managers and executives. In their most candid moments, they admit to finding it hard to sleep at night. Whats keeping them awake? The overwhelming demands of managing 21st century health ...
John W Kenagy (Mich Health Hosp, 200307-08)
trying-harder-not-answer.asp

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Using art to express a personal philosophy of nursing.

The authors describe an innovative teaching strategy using art to express personal philosophy of nursing. This teaching strategy gives students and faculty an opportunity to be creative and to express their personal feelings about the nature of ...
Brenda L Whitman, Wanda J Rose (Nurse Educ, 200307-08)
art-express-personal-philosophy-nursing.asp

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Scientific creativity as constrained stochastic behavior: the integration of product, person, and process perspectives.

Psychologists have primarily investigated scientific creativity from 2 contrasting in vitro perspectives: correlational studies of the creative person and experimental studies of the creative process. Here the same phenomenon is scrutinized using a 3rd, ...
Dean Keith Simonton (Psychol Bull, 200307)
scientific-creativity-constrained-stochastic-behavior-integration.asp

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Diversity and becoming: implications of human existence as coexistence.

Better ways of understanding and working with human diversity are needed in the healthcare and human service disciplines. Nursing, as the discipline that cares for whole persons throughout their lives and meets people where they are, is ideally suited to ...
William K Cody (Nurs Sci Q, 200307)
diversity-becoming-implications-human-existence-coexistence.asp

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Factors of home dream recall: a structural equation model.

Previous research has indicated that personality factors such as openness to experience, creativity, visual memory, attitude toward dreams, and sleep behavior is related to home dream recall frequency (DRF). However, a study investigating all areas ...
Michael Schredl, Lutz Wittmann, Petra Ciric, Simon Götz (J Sleep Res, 200306)
factors-home-dream-recall-structural-equation-model.asp