The main theme of chapter #7 in our text as written by Troy Swanson is ” Don’t steal other peoples ideas.” I believe it is imperative to give kudos to original thinkers and inventors. We each bring new ideas and work arounds to almost every situation in life. We are all creative to differing extents and each may be stronger in diffrent way of learning. So when a paper must be written we will each have our own individual footprint and interprettation. You must be proud of your work and DO take ownership but DON’T steal other peoples original thought. This chapter also spoke of the concept of order out of chaos. I can contribute much to this concept because in my hospital unit we must make sense of chaos everyday and we have pretty much got this down to a science. We must have o;rder to not be running with our heads chopped off and we depend on algorithms and standing orders to prevent a bad situation into becoming worse. Also chaos has been the mother of invention. I participated in a performance improvement initiative to better facilitate primary nursing care in my unit, we implemented many of the nursing tools already being utilized in my profession and added our own personal touch. I must say our nursing care and process is greatly improved with added accountability to assigned nurses. A much safer process. So although we did steal some useful tools of the trade, we creatively souped it up and turned chaos into order. Thank God this was not a written project that needed to be cited.

Swanso, Troy. “Mash It Up…Gracefully Using Sources.” Why White rice? Thinking Through Writing.Ed.Jeffrey Forsythe. 1st ed. Dubuque,IA, 2010. 163-174. Print.