BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
Bigger Conversations for a Healthier Tomorrow.
Books, essays, and publications that challenge assumptions, expand perspective, and help us build healthier people, stronger leaders, and better systems.
LIVING, LEADING, LEARNING TOGETHER
FEATURED BOOK
Stupid Gone Viral
When Science and Reality Collide
Kathy Scott, PhD | Bridget Sarikas | Christine Bessler
Stupid Gone Viral explores what science tells us about living, leading, and learning differently - and what happens when we trade unnecessary control for greater trust, choice, creativity, and responsibility. Grounded in evidence and filled with real-world stories. It invites leaders to question familiar assumptions and consider healthier ways of working together.
Leadership gets healthier when people do.
A must-read for anyone who cares about people, performance, and a healthier future.
- TIM PORTER-O'GRADY, PhD, RN, FAAN
Author, Speaker, and Healthcare Leadership Advisor
MORE FROM KATHY SCOTT, PhD
Selected
Publications & Perspectives
Publications, research and thought leadership on people, systems and the conditions for meaningful change that reflect the thinking behind L3 Fusion.
The Power of the Frame: Systems Transformation Framework for HealthCare Leaders
Kathy A. Scott & Janice Pringle
Nursing Administration Quarterly, 42(1), 4-14, 2018 | DOI: 10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000261
Renewing the Nursing Culture: Sustaining the Professional Community of Practice Through the Role of the Preceptor
Tim Porter-O'Grady, Kathy Malloch & Kathy Scott
Nursing Administration Quarterly, 48(2), 87-96, 2024 | DOI: 10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000639
Affirming the Economic and Impact Value of a Standardized New Nurse Preceptor Transition-to-Nursing-Practice Program in Hospital and Ambulatory Care Settings
Tim Porter-O'Grady, Kathy Malloch & Kathy Scott
Nursing Economics, 43(2), 60-66, 76, 2025 | DOI: 10.62116/NEC.2025.43.2.60
Preparing Nurses Who Stay: The APEX Advantage
Tim Porter-O'Grady, Kathy Malloch & Kathy Scott, Editors
Cognella, 2026, forthcoming
Selected Chapters by Kathy Scott
Chapter 3: State of Nurse Preceptor Programs: Evolution in Arizona and the Nation, Kathy Scott
Chapter 7: Statewide Operations Supporting Partnerships, Grantee-Advancement, and Statewide Nursing Transition to Practice, Kathy Malloch & Kathy Scott
Chapter 8: Data Development, Data Collection, and Analysis in the Arizona 1803 Nurse Grant on the Road to Preceptor Innovation: Challenges and Successes, Susan Leving & Kathy Scott
Transition to Practice Handbook: The Arizona Preceptor Excellence Model (APEX): Implementation Tools and Resources
Tim Porter-O'Grady, Kathy Malloch & Kathy Scott
Companion resource to Preparing Nurses Who Stay: The APEX Advantage
Cognella, 2026 forthcoming