Marilyn Anne Ray's Theory Of Bureaucratic Caring

Over the years as I have grown in my career and having become an oncology nurse, I have begun to understand that truly caring about your patients and getting them involved can influence them living longer with a cancer diagnosis. The role in caring as a concept analysis is important because it can cause patients to reach an optimal level of health sooner or grasp a better understanding of the process of care that is delivered even when it presents a level of discomfort or pain. According to the American Cancer Society (2014), lives are being extended with the advancement in cancer treatment and the care that is put into advanced research. Caring is the nursing concept that I chose and aforementioned it can play an important role in extending the lives of many cancer patients or aide in their mental stability going through various treatment modalities. In this assignment the nursing theory to be reviewed is Marilyn Anne Ray’s Theory of Bureaucratic Caring. This assignment will also include the following: definition of caring, a literature review, definition or explanation of attributes, explore an antecedent and a consequence of caring, discuss empirical referents, model cases, alternative cases, and finally the conclusion or summary of the concept chosen which is caring.
The concept of this particular caring theory was generated in a hospital setting using data analysis. From the research, several sub-groups were formed that involved the meaning of caring in the world of which we live, and the theories of the structure of caring as it relates to the complex processes within an