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On The Edge: Nursing In The Age Of Complexity |  | Authors: Claire Lindberg, Sue Nash, Curt Lindberg
Publisher: CreateSpace
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Pages: 322
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ISBN: 1438246765
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Publication Date: July 14, 2008
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This book presents the first comprehensive examination of issues important to nursing from the perspective of Complexity Science. In this groundbreaking volume, scholars and nurse leaders explore key Complexity Science principles and the profound implications they hold for clinical practice, leadership, nursing theory development, research, policy making, and understanding human physiology. Nursing students, practicing nurses, nurse educators, leaders, researchers, and other healthcare professionals will find great value in the fresh insights Complexity Science brings to challenges facing nursing today. Changes in the practice of nursing, emerging new roles, as well as heightened emphasis on healthcare quality present both risk and opportunity. Nurses who understand the emerging science of complexity will be better prepared to creatively face these issues and improve health in broad and lasting new ways. For volume discounts contact info@plexusinstitute or call 609-298-2140.
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a must read November 10, 2008
Arvind Singhal (el paso, TX, USA)
About once or twice in a decade, a volume comes along in the field of nursing and health care that questions, provokes, excites, and energizes with eloquence and elegance -- one that challenges reductionist and mechanistic ways of thinking and acting, creating new possibilities for healing, health, and caring. On the Edge: Nursing in the Age of Complexity is one such volume -- a must read for those interested in enhancing the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities.
Cutting Edge August 31, 2008
Complex Nurse (Dallas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book for anyone interested in the application of complexity science principles to patient care. Chapters range from introductory to advanced topics. The authors are on the cutting edge and present information that will intuitively make sense to nurses and other providers at the bedside and in management positions as they strive to provide quality patient care in the current health care environment.
THE nursing reference on complexity science and complex adaptative systems August 30, 2008
Dale Abendroth (Spokane, WA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are few, if any, easy straightforward answers/solutions to the issues and problems present in our complex healthcare system and nursing's work within in it. On the Edge: Nursing in the Age of Complexity offers the experienced nurse and the beginning nursing student alike a valuable look inside the concepts of complexity science and complex adaptative system and challenges our traditional logical, linear way of thinking which limits our perspective, as well as, the choices we think we can make in any situation. The authors ground the reader in the concept and language of complex adaptative systems (CAS) with clear, understandable descriptions followed by chapters filled with thought provoking and useful examples about how CAS thinking radically broadens one's perspective and, in turn, influences nursing in the areas of clinical reasoning, theory and practice, complexity-informed research methods, underlying dynamics of human health and illness, promotion of health and healing in families, nursing management and policy making processes, and the ability of nursing leadership to further the profession's contributions in healthcare.
Due to the lack of nursing-based texts about complexity science and CAS in the past, I have turned to non-nursing authors for course reading materials. So, it is with great excitement that I can offer this text to both my undergraduate and graduate nursing students to assist them in developing this new world-view.
Single Comprehensive Resource on Complexity Science for Nurse Educators August 29, 2008
Rosemary Cappelli (Trenton, New Jersey United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I teach graduate student nurses and was unable to locate useful resources on complexity science and nursing for use in my courses. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Complexity Science and it's relationship to nursing practice, research and leadership. The book includes basic information on Complexity Science principles along with many examples that illustrate the utility of this new science for 21st century nurses. Prior to the publication of this book, no single reference on Complexity Science existed that was suitable for use in undergraduate and graduate nursing courses. This book fills a critical need for nurse educators, nurse leaders, and nurse clinicians.
An Innovative And Thoughtful Complexity Science Resource with Comprehensive Glossary August 16, 2008
Tona Leiker (Kansas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This innovative and thoughtful text provides nursing educators, leaders, practicing nurses, and researchers with foundational knowledge and key resources on complexity science. This text is recommended for creating co-learning experiences with nursing students and professional nurses in a variety of roles. This book written by nursing scholars and complexity scientists who have played central roles in introducing complexity science into nursing and healthcare! Chapters, using a complexity perspective, address nursing theory, nursing research and methods, human physiology, health policy, nursing management and accountability, family nursing, and clinical reasoning and decision-making. It ends with a comprehensive glossary, a wonderful resource for anyone interested in complexity science and its implications for healthcare. This text has the potential to be used across a variety of nursing programs as it furthers our understanding of the self-organizing processes that underpin the health of patients, communities, and points to new strategies nurses can employ to foster health, address pressing quality and policy issues, approach research, and bring a greater relational orientation into healthcare.
In adopting On the Edge: Nursing in the Age of Complexity as a core textbook across the curriculum, I anticipate it will stimulate rich dialogue among our RN to BSN faculty and students, who were initially introduced to complexity science in 2004. For nurses, nursing scholars, managers, as well as other healthcare professionals this text has the potential to shift one's thinking about the way in which we respond to each other and approach the work of creating healthy patients, families, organizations, and communities. A recommended read!
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