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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822539903321

Titolo

Nursing, caring, and complexity science : for human-environment well-being / / [edited by] Alice Ware Davidson, Marilyn A. Ray, Marian C. Turkel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer Pub., c2011

ISBN

1-78268-178-7

1-283-13714-3

9786613137142

0-8261-2588-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DavidsonAlice Ware <1945-2009.>

RayMarilyn Anne

TurkelMarian C

Disciplina

610.73

Soggetti

Nursing models

Nursing - Philosophy

System theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Philosophical and theoretical perspectives related to complexity science in nursing / Marlaine Smith -- Complex caring dynamics : a unifying model of nursing inquiry / Marilyn A. Ray -- Theoretical issues and methods for increasing understanding of complex healthcare systems / Alice W. Davidson, Stefan Topolski -- Relational caring complexity : the study of caring and complexity in health care hospital organizations / Marilyn A. Ray, Marian C. Turkel, Jeffrey Cohn -- Why Six-Sigma health care is oxymoronic in hospitals / Bruce J. West -- Entropy as information content in medical research / Nikhil S. Padhye -- Caring science and complexity science guiding the practice of hospital and nursing administrative practice / Mary Beth Kingston, Michael Brooks Turkel -- Leadership in complex nursing and health care systems / Diana M. Crowell --

Mathematical models of the dynamics of social conflict / Larry Liebovitch ... [et al.] -- Modeling the complexity of story theory for



nursing practice / Patricia Liehr, Mary Jane Smith -- Providing nursing care in a complex health care environment / Michael Bleich -- The complexity of diabetes and the caring role of the nurse practitioner / Jane Kapustin -- Lessons in complexity science : preparing student nurses for practice in complex health care systems / Claire E. Lindberg -- Technological change in health care electronic documentation as facilitated through the science of complexity / Todd Swinderman -- Implementing change in nursing informatics practice / Aric S. Campling, Marilyn A. Ray, Jacqueline M. Lopez-Devine -- Human rights and humanoid relationships in nursing and complexity science / Rozzano Locsin ... [et al.].

Sommario/riassunto

""This collected scholarship...will inform the personal/professional evolution of caring and nursing into this century and beyond, inviting new visions of the evolved human in the world of practice, education, research, administration, and clinical care. It is truly a visionary futuristic manifesto for this time in nursing and health sciences at all levels."". Jean Watson , PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN. University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing. Founder: Watson Caring Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado. (From the Reflection). This innovative volume explores nursing and complexity science, an