In our world of modern innovations, everything is seemingly becoming always in its fast phase. One way or another, unexpected situations will arise in the most unforeseen way, and most of the time we’ll be caught off guard. As I came to know about bureaucratic nursing, I thought of this as a perfect guide for us nurses to go with the complexities that has brought by the changes in the view of many about caring. Let me give you the current condition of the institution I am working in now as an example. This hospital started catering services merely a year and like other newly established organizations, it still does not have a strong foundation when it comes to a systematic flow of work. In this point of time, bureaucracy and its principles can be used as a framework in starting to shape the organization the way the administration want it to be. In this theory, all the aspects of an health care organization is tackled, may it be the legal, cultural, economic, political, ethical, educational and technological part of it. The concept focuses on the organization itself and the factors that affect its quality of care rendered to its clients. It encompasses various strategies on how we can comply with demands of our changing environment and lifestyle of the people in it. A multi-cultural organization like the one I work in will greatly benefit from this theory if only its principles are well applied. In bureaucratic nursing theory, an innovative, more competitive and a standardized manner of caring can easily achieved.
– Chenee Mueliza H. Liberato, RN