Opening Doors Creativity in Nursing

Abstract

THE PRACTICE of nursing is a continual challenge to the imagination. Creative imagination plays a vital part in the development of all professions. It is the sine qua non of scientific and technological achievement. Today, the word creativity is "part of a growing resistance to the tyranny of the formula, a new respect for individuality, a dawning recognition of the potentialities of the liberated mind".1 There is need for freedom of thought and inquiry if this unpredictable, capricious, open, independent, zealous, synthesizing process of creativity is to flourish.