Nursing Theory

 

Explain in your own words Ray’s theory of bureaucratic caring. APA format, minimum of 150 words, and 2 APA references.

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Nursing Theory

Changes in the health care environment have raised many questions related to patient care. How are political, economic, legal, and technological caring decisions made? In nursing, caring, and love are synonymous (Ray, 1981a, p.32). The Theory of Bureaucratic Caring was discovered through description, analysis, and interpretation of the meaning of the phenomenon of caring in the complex institutional culture of the hospital. Bureaucratic Caring is spiritual-ethical caring emerging in bureaucracies. Bureaucracies are complex systems with political, legal, economic, technological, physical, educational and social-cultural dimensions. The model of the Theory of Bureaucratic Caring is represented by a circle that shows the interrelationship among the central and surrounding concepts.

ous as I had no idea who my group members would be and what they would be like. During the seminar I felt relief when I knew I was in a group with a friend of mine but I was still nervous and felt apprehensive towards the other group members. However as I introduced myself to the other members and they introduced themselves to me I felt my anxiety lessen as found by (Marletta, Sarli, Caricati & Mancini, 2017). Although apprehensive and anxious I was excited about the opportunity to make more friends and get to know more of my class mates. The other thing that I found to be anxiety provoking was the thought of the presentation and the fact that I had to rely on other people to produce a good standard of work to be complied in the presentation. I had to rely on the rest of the group members having good presentation skills I think it’s this reason why I decided to take the lead for the first few sessions which could have resulted in some members not feeling able to speak up this has also been found in MDTs by Lichtenstein et al. 2004. I felt angry and irritated about some members lack of commitment as not everyone turned up to every meeting with some people missing meetings more than one occasion I found this to be frustrating as it produced anxiety about the quality of the information within the presentation. Research has found that the group dynamic is effected by each members dedication to the end goal the presentation (Forsyth, 2018). As a results of this the absent members received a debrief of what we disused at the meeting from me. At points I might have been a bit overbearing and my frustration may have come across. As we discussed how we wanted to present our presentation I felt confused as there was a suggestion by a team member that we should all dress up as e.g. a psychiatrist and other suggestions (right before we presented our presentation to the class) of using a stick man to explain our chosen roles. This all produced heated debate which made me feel uncomfortable and resulting in me taking a step back as the role of leader and not really contributing to this debate which was ultimately solved through

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