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Plexus Institute Suggested
Learning Material This bibliography has been prepared for those attending the AACN Clinical Nurse Leader workshops. It contains recommended reading material and websites on complexity science, nursing, medicine, healthcare and management. Additional resources can be found in the E-Library of the Plexus Institute website - www.plexusinstitute.org. Introductory Material Johnson, Steven. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, New York, NY, Scribner, 2001. (explores broad relevance of complex systems concepts) Waldrop, M.M. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, Simon & Schuster, 1992. (classic work about the development of complexity science, has served as a wonderful introduction for many) Lewin, Roger and Regein, Birute. Weaving Complexity and Business: Engaging the Soul at Work, New York, New York, Texere, 2001 (stories, including some from healthcare, about complexity-inspired leadership in a wider variety of organizations) Plexus Institute - New to Complexity - http://www.plexusinstitute.org/About/New_to_Complexity.cfm. (set of resources for "newcomers to complexity" found on Plexus Institute website. Includes a complexity science primer, recommended resources, "complexity aides", stories, and leadership principles) Zimmerman, Brenda, Lindberg, Curt, and Plsek, Paul. Edgeware: Lessons from Complexity Science for Health Care Leaders. Dallas, TX: VHA, Inc., 1998/2001. (introductory handbook for healthcare professionals. covers key concepts, learning resources, case stories and application principles)
Anderson, Ruth A., Issel, L. Michele, and McDaniel, Reuben R. "Nursing Homes as Complex Adaptive Systems". Nursing Research. (January/February 2003). Vol. 52, No. 1, pp.12-21. Anderson, R. A., & McDaniel, R. R. "Managing healthcare organizations: Where professionalism meets complexity science". Health Care Management Review. (2000). Vol25, No. 1, pp. 83-92. Anderson, R. A., and McDaniel, R. R. "The relationship of RN participation in organizational decision making to quality of care in nursing homes". Health Care Management Review. (1999). 24(1), 7-16. Begun, J., Zimmerman, B., and Dooley, K. "Health Care Organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems". in Advances in Health Care Organization Theory. Jossey-Bass, 2003. Begun, James W., White, Kenneth R. "The Profession of Nursing as a Complex Adaptive System: Strategies for Change". pp. 189-203 in J.J. Kronenfeld (ed.), Research in the Sociology of Health Care. Vol. 16, Greenwich, CN: JAI Press, 1999. Goldberger, Ary L. "Fractal Variability Versus Pathologic Periodicity: Complexity Loss and Stereotypy in Disease". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. (Summer, 1997). Vol. 40, pp. 543-561. Kinnaman, Mary L, Bleich, Michael R. "Collaboration: Aligning Resources to Create and Sustain Partnerships". Journal of Professional Nursing. (2004). Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 310-322. McDaniel, Reuben, and Driebe, Dean J. "Complexity Science and Health Care Management". In Blair, John, Fottler, Myron, and Savage, Grant, Advances in Health Care Management, JAI Press, 2001 Plexus Institute - Complexity in Action - http://www.plexusinstitute.org/services/stories/index.cfm. (a variety of stories on Plexus Institute website about the use of complexity science concepts in healthcare organizations - see especially "Growing a Stroke Center Chunk By Chunk", Hunterdon Medical Center: Critical Mass and Emergence of the Goddess", and "Too Beautiful". Suchman, Anthony. "Linearity, Complexity and Well-being". Medical Encounter, (2002). Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 17-19.
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