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

Contents 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 --
Contents 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.].
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