| Monday, November 14, 2005: 1:45 PM-3:00 PM | |||
| Complexity, the Science of Relationships. Nursing, the Profession of Relationships | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Describe the principles of complexity science, including emergence, self-organization, and non-linearity | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Discuss the application of complexity science insights and practices to nursing practice, leadership, and education | |||
| Nurses practice in a dynamic healthcare environment. The increasing complexity of the healthcare system, the highly technological workplace, the speed in which care is provided, and the prevalence of patients with chronic and multi-system conditions necessitate exploration of new approaches to the science of nursing care. If the profession of nursing is to thrive under current system pressures and play a more central role in improving health care, nursing leaders must develop more responsive nursing systems and nursing educators must develop new programs that support these systems by educating nurses to understand and work creatively in complex healthcare environments. Complexity science, called the science of the 21st century by Stephen Hawking, is a relatively young field dedicated to studying interactions within living systems of all types and the patterns of behavior that emerge from these interactions. As such, it is opening new vistas into the dynamics and behavior of living systems, including many directly relevant to healthcare and nursing. This symposium focuses on key principles of complexity science and the growing contributions complexity science is making to nursing care delivery and nursing education. The history and key principles of complexity science, including nonlinearity, self-organization and emergence will be explained and illustrated using examples from nursing and human physiology in health and disease. In addition, two pioneering applications of complexity in nursing will be explored. This first tells the story of a novel graduate nursing education curriculum that incorporates complexity science as a major curricular thread in the core curriculum and the clinical courses. The second application examines how complexity based leadership practices facilitate the discovery of new patient care delivery models. | |||
| Organizer: | Claire E. Lindberg, PhD, RN | ||
| Presenters: | Curt Lindberg, MHA Claire E. Lindberg, PhD, RN Marjorie S. Wiggins, RN, BSN, MBA, CNAA, BC | ||
| Complexity: The Science of the 21st Century Curt Lindberg, MHA | |||
| Complexity in Nursing Education: A Model Curriculum Claire E. Lindberg, PhD, RN, APRN, BC | |||
| Complexity in Nursing Care: Reinventing the Nursing Care Delivery Model Marjorie S. Wiggins, RN, BSN, MBA, CNAA, BC | |||