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Complexity Leadership in the Collaboration Between Academia and Clinical Nursing: Searching for Harmony

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Complexity leadership in the collaboration between academia and clinical nursing is gaining momentum. In this chapter, the focus is on our attempts to embrace complexity leadership as faculty members who hold joint positions at the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Iceland and Landspitali, the National University Hospital of Iceland. We put emphasis on the implications of this concept to expand the collaborative practice between academia and clinical nursing. Short cases that originate in the area of nursing care for vulnerable chronically ill adults are presented. These cases illustrate how complexity leadership has been used in clinical research and healthcare, to develop assessment methods that reflect the needs and requirement of patients, and have helped to increase research utilization and participation of nurses in clinical research projects.

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  1. Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Marianne E. Klinke & Helga Jónsdóttir

  2. Research and Development in Nursing Care in Neurology and Neuro-Rehabilitation, Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Marianne E. Klinke

  3. Nursing Care for the Chronically Ill, Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Helga Jónsdóttir

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  1. Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Thóra B. Hafsteinsdóttir

  2. School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Helga Jónsdóttir

  3. Department of Nursing Science, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Olso, Norway

    Marit Kirkevold

  4. Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Helena Leino-Kilpi

  5. Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Kirsten Lomborg

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Klinke, M.E., Jónsdóttir, H. (2019). Complexity Leadership in the Collaboration Between Academia and Clinical Nursing: Searching for Harmony. In: Hafsteinsdóttir, T., Jónsdóttir, H., Kirkevold, M., Leino-Kilpi, H., Lomborg, K., Rahm Hallberg, I. (eds) Leadership in Nursing: Experiences from the European Nordic Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10964-6_11

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