You recently acquired a position as a unit manager
During your time on the unit, you have formed a strong social network among your staff, have promoted the development of relationships between your staff and workers in other areas of the organization, and have formed relationships that generate ideas from patient organizations and the local nursing education program. According to complexity theory, you are engaging which principle?
a. Empowerment
b. Systematic thinking
c. Development of networks
d. Bottom-up interactions
ANS: C
According to complexity theory, social networks evolve around areas of common interest and are able to respond to problems in creative and novel ways.
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