Quantum Caring Leadership: Integrating Quantum Leadership With Caring Science

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with nursing’s ethical-moral covenant to sustain human car- ing-healing and health, requiring an evolved consciousness of oneness and connection.
Within the unitary paradigm, everything is connected at the energetic, quantum level, and small acts have a ripple effect in the field. Human beings are viewed as whole. Caring moments within the unitary paradigm have been perceived as mutuality of human-to-human patterning (Newman et al., 1991). Watson referred to these human caring moments as transpersonal moments, whereby a caring moment transcends time, space, and physical presence (Watson, 1999,
2005) and creates anew field of possibilities.
This awareness transcends differences through a human- to-human authentic connection unitary consciousness seeks to avoid the dualism of either/or thinking, embracing both/
and reality. This unitary oneness experience is transforma- tive, resisting dichotomies, transcending differences resulting in an evolution of consciousness. (Watson, 1999, 2005,
2008, 2017). Awareness of the unitary consciousness arises when disparate ontologies about caring and human-universe are uncovered depending on paradigmatic perspectives. For example, three nursing paradigms are identified particulate- deterministic, interactive-integrative, and unitary transfor- mative (Newman, Sime, & Corcoran-Perry, 1991). The first two levels are located within a parts-focused worldview or ontology parts versus wholeness—meaning the human is separate from the environment and wider universe mind is separate from the body and soon. That is, within the first two paradigms, relations and processes in the human environment field are separate entities. Humans seek to control or at least interact to manage their body, their physical fields, and their environmental reality (Newman et al., The unitary paradigm awakens nursing to its timeless phenomena, of wholeness, to the human-universe reality of oneness and connection of all. This evolved consciousness within caring science (CS) can be framed as relational unitary worldview (Watson, 2005, 2008). It is when we locate nursing’s phenomena of wholeness, healing-health, and caring within the unitary field that we have ontological disciplinary congruence fora relational-unitary ontology versus a separatist, ontological worldview (Watson, 2008, 2017).

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