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Tim Porter-O'Grady1,2, Jim D'Alfonso3, Rayne Soriano4
1Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Georgia (Porter-O'Grady).
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The convergence of Jean Watson's Caring Science and the framework of quantum leadership creates a transformative model for nursing leadership and practice. While Caring Science provides the ontological, ethical, and relational grounding for nursing's covenant with humanity, quantum leadership introduces complexity principles that align organizational life with interdependence, nonlinearity, and emergence. Together, they create Quantum Caring Leadership-a seamless integration of caring-healing practice and human-centered leadership. This manuscript examines the convergence at 4 levels: systems, the profession, the individual practitioner, and the patient/community. A conceptual model of Quantum Caring Leadership is presented, offering direction for a new Quantum Caring Leadership Academy and a future where caring is enacted in both practice and leadership as a unified moral covenant.
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