Quantum Caring Leadership: Integrating Quantum Leadership With Caring Science
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| Quantum Revolution—HealthCare Leadership While nursing’s disciplinary discourse and theories have evolved to the unitary principles of wholeness, caring, and health (Cowling, Smith, & Watson, 2008; Newman et al., 1991; Watson & Smith, 2002), the principles of healthcare leadership are still largely embedded in Newtonian separatist outdated principles (Porter-O’Grady & Malloch, 2016) (see Table Meanwhile, in the field of quantum physics, the world has been experiencing a second quantum revolution, metaphorically taking the field beyond the first revolution of Newtonian physics of particles-parts-matter, motion, and movement into the larger field of quantum—from the micro- to macro- level—everything in the universe is connected. This second revolution is shared in the research and scholarship of the notable familiar names of physicists such as Planck, Bohr, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Bohm, Bell, and others. The movement of quantum thinking is uncovering that at the microlevel of the physical world, everything is connected. This thinking is now more than just a theory. While not all physics theorists agree that quantum is more than just a theory, there is increasing agreement that quantum principles work in the larger micro-macro world, if not the universe. Quantum theory and quantum leadership (QL) principles emphasize integration, synthesis, and relatedness and recognize that change is not a thing or an event but rather a dynamic that is constitutive of the universe (Porter- O’Grady & Malloch, 2010). This quantum worldview parallels the growing commitment of nurse scholars to unitary thinking for nursing phenomena. New quantum breakthroughs have led to more mainstream images of quantum as a reality. For example, among the general public, quantum, even as a metaphor for the uni- tary oneness of the mystery of the universe takes on new meanings, exemplified by the seventies movement, with popular books such as Gary Zukav’s The Dancing Wu Iii Mastersi and Capra’s The Tao of Physics. Currently, the quan- tum world of oneness is evident at the environmental-plane- tary level and in common parlance. Indeed, the second quantum physics revolution has engaged the general public to the extent that folks are informed of the phenomenon of wave-particle theory of light and matter this awakening has led to medical science theory and research of phenomena of nonlocality and nonlocal con- sciousness. Consciousness is not confined to the brain Phillips, 2017; Watson, 2005). Moreover, Rogers science of unitary human beings posited energy as the fundamental unit of living, including indivisible fields within fields, beyond the physical plane (Rogers, 1992). This Rogerian view of quantum indicated that everything is energetically connected and coextensive with the entire universe. These unitary quantum principles were most recently summarized by Phillips (2017), the prominent Rogerian unitary scientist scholar. Phillips highlighted selected views of science to include the following: Download 108.76 Kb. Share with your friends:
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