title: Learning nursing: what factors are responsible for a lack of creativity?
abstract: The following article discusses some of the many and complex factors responsible for a lack of creativity in nursing education. Creativity is seen as a positive attribute, enhancing nursing care. The occupational socialisation of the nurse is explored in addition to the power ideologies at play both in the clinical area and in the school/college of nursing that could affect creative thought. Strategies to remedy the situation are explored and tentative suggestions made. These include changes at the macro and micro level where the student of nursing learns.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Silcock
mesh_terms: D003405:Creativity; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*