2002
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02113.x
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Using chaos theory: the implications for nursing

Abstract: The contention that chaos theory has yet to find a niche within nursing theory and practice is examined. The application of chaotic thinking across nursing practice, nursing research and statistical modelling is reviewed. The use of chaos theory as a way of identifying the attractor state of specific systems is considered and the suggestion is made that it is within statistical modelling of services that chaos theory is most effective.

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“…The use of complex theories in nursing science [14][15][16][17] directs attention to understanding how systems adapt to their environments and how they can cope with conditions of unpredictability. Not so long ago health care was the science of controlling infectious diseases by identifying the "cause" and taking steps to fix it; now, the systems have fuzzier boundaries, and patients can read about treatment strategies on the Internet.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The use of complex theories in nursing science [14][15][16][17] directs attention to understanding how systems adapt to their environments and how they can cope with conditions of unpredictability. Not so long ago health care was the science of controlling infectious diseases by identifying the "cause" and taking steps to fix it; now, the systems have fuzzier boundaries, and patients can read about treatment strategies on the Internet.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Chaffee and McNeill 14 add that complexity theories are useful in attempts to explain complex behaviors. Some helpful examples of the application of complexity theories can be found in nursing literature by researchers such as Chaffee and McNeill, 14 Coppa, 15 Haigh, 16 and Patton, 17 who sought to identify underlying order in chaotic and nonlinear systems. Examples of such complex systems are ant colonies, neural networks, the global economy, and nursing settings.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Incluso más recientemente, la prestación de cuidados ha sido analizada desde la perspectiva de la complejidad 24,25 .…”
Section: Bases Teóricas Y Conceptuales: Complejidad Caos Y Ciencia Eunclassified
“…In relation to nursing, for example, Ray (1994) uses chaos theory to conceptualise nurses' empathy, while Sabelli, Carlson-Sabelli and Messer (1994) propose that chaos theory surpasses systems theory in terms of its explanatory potential for nursing, and that a system achieves equilibrium when good health occurs. Haigh (2002) also uses chaos theory in her research, evaluating patient contacts in an acute pain service to identify attractors in order to gain insights into the evolution of the entire service. More recently, other nursing-related areas that have been studied through the lens of chaos theory include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) self-management (Cornforth 2013), patients' responses to a cancer diagnosis (Drevdahl & Dorcy 2012), professional nursing practice (Kramer et al 2013), unexpected deaths of paediatric patients (Meyer 2014), and septic patients (Mann-Salinas, Engebretson & Batchinsky 2013).…”
Section: The Development and Application Of Chaos Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this understanding, the individual is a "…system comprised of interacting subsystems and [is] a subsystem in a larger system with which he or she interacts" (Pryor & Bright 2003a, p.125 According to chaos theory, chaotic systems are dynamical insofar as they change with time (Haigh 2002). The future is conceptualised not as some indescribable, far-away condition, but instead as "close as the person's next choice, next thought, and next action" (Pryor & Bright 2003a).…”
Section: Dynamical Systemsmentioning
confidence: 99%