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Alice Ware Davidson, Ph.D., R.N.
Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado School of Nursing, Faculty Associate in the Colorado Center for Chaos and Complexity
Alice Ware Davidson holds a Ph.D. (1988) from the University of Colorado and a MS in Nursing from Case Western Reserve University. She also served on the faculty at Wright State University and as administrator, educator, clinician in positions in healthcare organizations. As a Collaborative Researcher, a joint position between CU and local hospitals she was able to conduct numerous studies showing the importance of the multi-sensory environment in human well-being. These understandings were applied in designing award winning community centers, cancer care units and neonatal and adult intensive care units.
Seeking to expand knowledge of the therapeutic use of the environment, Dr. Davidson was a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and scholar at Boston University, the New England Complex Systems Institute, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Pari Institute in Italy. Utilizing computer modeling, circadian rhythm, physiologic, and qualitative research methods, she pioneered deeper and more dynamic ways to view the whole. She found that complexity science provided a new lens to explore the experience of pregnancy, case management of chronically-ill older adults, sensory interference in healthcare environments and the art of nursing and shared her findings in publications, including the pioneering journal Complexity and chaos in nursing. Dr. Davidson is convinced that Nursing and health care can greatly benefit from the ontology and epistemology of complexity science, she strives to share the richness of the art of Nursing with others interested in complex phenomena.
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