After a brainstorming session on how to implement a new staffing policy, the nurse manager decided ...

After a brainstorming session on how to implement a new staffing policy, the nurse manager decided to have the staff rank the suggestions in order of most preferred solution after considering whether each suggestion is practical, cost effective, efficient
 
  and effective. Next, the staff prioritized the list, eliminated items, and added others. This is a form of:
  a.
  Visual identification of relationships
  b.
  Checklist method
  c.
  Modeling
  d.
  Self-interrogation checklist

Question 2

A nurse manager asks the staff members, What causes low morale? This is an example of which of the following?
 
  a. Meditation
  b. Keeping an ideas diary
  c. Reverse brainstorming
  d. Brainstorming

Question 3

The nursing home staff members were brainstorming about ways to keep one of the residents from walking into other residents' rooms uninvited.
 
  After they failed to agree on a solution, the nurse manager instructed the staff members to take a break for lunch. The nursing manager was practicing what phase of creative decision making?
  a.
  Preparation
  b.
  Incubation
  c.
  Illumination
  d.
  Verification

Question 4

The nurse manager at a nursing home wanted to use creative thinking to solve the problem of residents' borrowing each other's cigarettes without permission.
 
  First, the nurse manager called two licensed staff members into her office to discuss the problem. Next, she called in the nursing assistant to join the group. Finally, she called in the social worker to join the group. The nurse manager employed which technique to solve the problem?
  a.
  Ladder of abstraction
  b.
  Think tanks
  c.
  Stepladder technique
  d.
  Delphi technique