As a nurse, one has to work continuously on the improvement of health management systems utilized to cater to patients’ health-related needs. The notion of a complex adaptive system (CAS) as a tool for keeping the continuity of care and connecting nursing processes into a single framework for managing patients’ needs is a comparatively new addition to the realm of nursing care (Notarnicola et al., 2017). However, it has already become an important device in integrating multidisciplinary communication into the process of care and enhancing its efficacy. By creating the foundation for encompassing every aspect of nursing as a system, CAS creates extra opportunities for a nurse to keep the quality of patient communication and provided treatments at the needed level.
Allowing to differentiate between key components of change within the nursing setting, a CAS will help one to link learning goals to expected behaviors and, ultimately, to the desirable outcomes (Kottke et al., 2016). Therefore, the use of a CAS in the nursing setting will help to improve the service delivery process and assist patients more effectively. Specifically, the application of CAS will cause a change in the quality of nursing care (Flieger, 2017).
The concepts such as process dynamics and cause-and-effect relationships will need to be utilized in the process of decision-making in nursing so that every factor affecting potential outcomes could be identified. Due to the introduction of CAS into nursing, one will be able to envision its major processes as interconnected (Notarnicola et al., 2017). As a result, one will embrace the options for controlling the delivery of care for patients by maintaining the entire system as opposed to its separate aspects (Kottke et al., 2016). Thus, the continuity of care will be facilitated within the nursing environment.
References
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Kottke, T. E., Huebsch, J. A., McGinnis, P., Nichols, J. M., Parker, E. D., Tillema, J. O., & Maciosek, M. V. (2016). Using principles of complex adaptive systems to implement secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in primary care. The Permanente Journal, 20(2), 17-24. Web.
Notarnicola, I., Petrucci, C., De Jesus Barbosa, M. R., Giorgi, F., Stievano, A., Rocco, G., & Lancia, L. (2017). Complex adaptive systems and their relevance for nursing: An evolutionary concept analysis. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 23(3), 1-13. Web.