Many of you have experience in complex adaptive systems whether you realize it or not. Thinking about your future practice specialty area, identify an issue or concern common to your future practice setting (master’s in education).

In your initial response, please identify your specialty track (master’s in education), as well as the issue or concern(increasing deficit in nursing staff and nurse educators and a shift in the age of the nursing workforce). Discuss how this issue or concern impacts the system at the micro, meso, and macro levels. How will you address this issue or concern at the microsystem level? What is the expected impact of your solution on the meso- and macrosystems? Remember you can use an information technology-based solution to address the issue or concern.

Example:

Nursing education programs are complex adaptive systems within a larger educational institution. An educational institution is a complex adaptive system with a community. The educational institution has an internal system and the community is an external system to the educational institution. Changes occurring within the nursing education program (microsystem) affect activities and outcomes in the educational institution (mesosystem). Likewise, changes in the greater community (macrosystem) can influence activities and outcomes in the nursing educational program (microsystem).