Practice:
Ray’s research has shown that nurses, patients and administrators value caring science, & the caring intentionality that is co-created in the nurse-patient or administrator relationship.By creating spiritual-ethical caring relationships, clinical nurses & administrators can transform the workplace into moral communities within the culture of humanistic, social, economic, political and legal values.
Education:
The theory is useful to nursing education because of its broad focus on caring & complexity science /s in nursing and the conceptualization of the health care system—used as an organizing framework for curricula.
Universities and hospitals have incorporated Ray’s Model of Bureaucratic Caring in the framework for the baccalaureate nursing programs, and clinical environments to guide nursing evolution, practice, research, and administration.
Research:
Through Ray’s extensive experience with research, she has developed a phenomenological-hermeneutical approach (caring inquiry) that continues to guide her research and has been adopted by many researchers for the humanistic approach, using a lens of caring & caring science to study the human experience in health situations.
Presenting Caring Inquiry Method August, 2013 at 32nd International Human Science Research Conference, Aalborg, Denmark
