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Quantum Caring Leadership: Integrating Quantum Leadership With Caring Science.
Jean Watson1, Tim Porter-O'Grady2,3,4, Sara Horton-Deutsch5
11 Founder/Director Watson Caring Science Institute, Boulder, CO, USA.
Nursing Science Quarterly
|June 20, 2018
Summary
This study integrates caring science theory and quantum leadership science to create a new model for nursing healthcare leadership. The Quantum Caring Healthcare Leadership model offers a unified approach for advancing nursing knowledge and practice.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Caring Science Theory
- Quantum Leadership Science
- Healthcare Leadership
Background:
- Nursing has historically developed caring science theory and quantum leadership science separately.
- A unitary paradigm lens reveals intersecting principles between these two fields.
- Existing leadership models may not fully integrate the philosophical and scientific underpinnings of nursing.
Purpose of the Study:
- To integrate caring science theory and quantum leadership science within a nursing discipline-specific unitary paradigm.
- To develop a novel model for healthcare leadership that unifies these two fields.
- To explore the potential for theory generation in unitary science and healthcare leadership.
Main Methods:
- Integration of principles from caring science theory and quantum leadership science.
- Application of a nursing discipline-specific unitary paradigm lens.
- Analysis of ontological congruence between philosophical-ethical-theoretical principles and disciplinary concepts.
Main Results:
- Identification of intersecting principles between caring science and quantum leadership.
- Development of the Quantum Caring Healthcare Leadership model.
- Demonstration of ontological congruence between the core tenets of both fields.
Conclusions:
- The Quantum Caring Healthcare Leadership model represents a new, unitary, discipline-specific entity for nursing.
- This convergence offers a theory-generating framework for advancing nursing knowledge, theory, and practice.
- The model provides a unified approach to guide future healthcare leadership and research in nursing.
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