Importance Of Flexibility In Nursing

Flexibility: capacity to adapt, accommodates, modify or change thoughts, ideas, and behaviors. (Scheffer and Rubenfeld 2000)

When your practice routines are interrupted, how does your thinking help you adapt? As my practice routines are interrupted, my mind needs to figure out what to do with next. I need to focus on what on the previous event that was going on and try to remember to avoid any distraction so my practice routines are not interrupted.

How much of your mind is open to change and how much is closed? I would say that 75% of my mind is open to change while the rest of the 25% of my mind doesn’t like to change. It is important to be open-minded because nursing is a learning process. We have to adapt our ways of learning by being able to hear other individual’s opinions and thought processes.

What has to occur for you to change your mind about

I would place myself in a third-world country such as Ecuador because I would like to see how the health care system works over there. I would like to see how their hospital, nursing departments and in general how their clinics run. As a result, I can learn about different way they have to cope with lack of supplies and healthcare providers, and learn more things that allow them to continue on with their care. I love to learn about other individual’s way of adapting to their environment because it inspires me to grow and it also acknowledge that we might take for grant things that other countries don’t have.

How do you distinguish the thinking differences between information seeking and inquisitiveness? Information seeking requires you to recognize, to search, to interpret and to analyze the data that you obtain. On the other hand, curiosity drives you to be inquisitive. It is more natural way of trying to find out of things that one doesn’t know. Ultimately, these both methods can help you obtain data