Table of Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Reflection
Prologue
Acknowledgments
1.Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives Related to Complexity Science in Nursing
2.Complex Caring Dynamics: A Unifying Model of Nursing Inquiry
3.Theoretical Issues and Methods for Increasing Understanding of Complex Health Care Systems
4.Relational Caring Complexity: The Study of Caring and Complexity in Health Care Hospital Organizations
5.Why Six Sigma Health Care Is Oxymoronic in Hospitals
6.Entropy as Information Content in Medical Research
7.Caring Science and Complexity Science Guiding the Practice of Hospital and Nursing Administrative Practice
8.Leadership in Complex Nursing and Health Care Systems
9.Mathematical Models of the Dynamics of Social Conflict
10.Modeling the Complexity of Story Theory for Nursing Practice
11.Providing Nursing Care in a Complex Health Care Environment
12.The Complexity of Diabetes and the Caring Role of the Nurse Practitioner
13.Lessons in Complexity Science: Preparing Student Nurses for Practice in Complex Health Care Systems
14.Technological Change in Health Care Electronic Documentation as Facilitated Through the Science of Complexity
15.Implementing Change in Nursing Informatics Practice
16.Human Rights and Humanoid Relationships in Nursing and Complexity Science
Epilogue: Emerging Ideas/Questions for the Future of Nurse Caring and Health Care in a Complex World
Addendum
Index