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6 NURSING, CARING, AND COMPLEXITY SCIENCE
Table 1.2 Correspondence of Concepts Related to CAS to Extant Nursing Theories
Concept
Embeddedness
Dynamism
Patterning
Coevolution
Definition
CAS exist within
larger systems that
provide context for
understanding each.
CAS are in continuous
change; stability is not
expected or desired.
CAS have unique
configurations of
movement and flow
that identify each.
CAS simultaneously
shape and are shaped
by their interactions
with other systems.
Correspondence
to Nursing Theories
Rogers’ postulate of open systems
and principle of integrality: Humans
and environment are energy fields,
coextensive with the universe and in
continuous, mutual process.
Newman describes individual patterns
of consciousness embedded in
family and community patterns. Roy’s
philosophical assumptions related to
cosmic unity.
Rogers’ postulates and principles
of helicy and resonancy: Change
in human–environmental energy
field is continuous, innovative, and
unpredictable with greater diversity of
field patterning.
Roy describes persons as holistic
adaptive systems with coping processes
that maintain adaptation and promote
person and environment transformations.
Rogers’ postulates of energy field,
open systems, and pattern and
organization: Each energy field has a
distinguishing pattern, a single wave
that differentiates it from others.
Newman’s concept of pattern of
the whole with movement, time,
and space as patterns of evolving
consciousness.
Davidson stated that patterning could
shift from stability to radical changes
and that patterning over time should
be studied through a perceptual dance
between the parts and the whole.
Rogers’ postulates of open systems:
Human and environment energy fields
are in continuous mutual process.
Newman asserts that nurse and
client evolve together in the mutual
relationship.
Parse’s principle that humans are cotranscending
with the possibles.