Nurse education should abandon its adherence : to ‘cut and dried' medical theories in favour of the ‘Chaos Theory’s’ approach to human complexity, argues Barry Clifton

When the Judge report (1) described nursing schools as generating: ‘An educational atmosphere reminiscent of a nineteenth-century teachers’ training college, rather than of a modern establishment of post-secondary education’, it wasn’t far off the mark - while their activities are dressed in a fashionable new language; they still aren’t changing much.