Equifinality
Equifinality, the ability to attain the same final state from many different initial conditions, is featured more prominently and is increasing in importance because the regulatory landscape is becoming more complex as it seeks to address and accommodate dynamic change and associated variability in health systems. In the past, when regulators were the only mechanism to protect the public, student nurses were primarily women who completed high school, and there were few nursing shortages, regulatory systems tended to be linear and isolated (Allsop et al., 2004).