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The Chaos Theory, which explains how a complex and unpredictable system behaves, shows that there exists a system within irregularly visible systems, it has affected all fields of science towards the end of the 20th century. In the Chaos Theory, it is impossible to understand and predict all of the dynamic system (non-linear systems), where small changes in a system lead to greater change in the process (sensitive to the initial state), similar to the smallest part of a whole (fractals). It is stated that behaviors occurring in systems are not random and that there is an atractor causing the behavior. The complex structure of biological systems studied in life sciences allows the use of the Chaos Theory in these areas. The focal point of all approaches to complex structures allows the application of Chaos Theory within the health sciences. In this review, the treatment and care initiatives for meeting the health needs of nurses, patients or healthy individuals who face most problems within the health care system are dealt with on the basis of Chaos Theory.
Keywords: Chaos Theory, health sciences, nursing, nursing care
Introduction
Chaos Theory, a combination of conceptual, mathematical and geometric methods, deals with nonlinear, complex and dynamic systems characterized by its fractal structure (Gokmen, 2009; Tuna-Orhan, 2013). The concept of Chaos Theory dates back to ancient Greek and Chinese civilizations. Part of the important works that influenced Chaos Theory was carried out by the French mathematician , Jules Henri Poincare , in the 19th century. Poincare, in his study on the problem of 'three bodies', reported that multidimensional systems were too complex to be predicted and used the term 'chaos' for the first time in technical terms. Bertalanffy defined the system as a common and complex structure with a mutual interaction (Diker & Okten, 2009; Gokmen, 2009).
The beginning of Chaos Theory in the modern sense is based on the work of Meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz. In 1963, Lorenz wrote an algorithm to model weather events through his computer to monitor the behavior of the weather. This program works on a system of three differential equations. Lorenz observed the behavior of this system and how the parameters changed relative to each other, and in this modeling he discovered...