Research Critique

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Research Critique

Introduction

The paper critically reviews the article 'Work Stress and Burnout among Nurses: Role of the Work Environment and Working Conditions' by Bonnie M. Jennings. The aim is to review Jennings' work in order to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the research in discussion. The statement of phenomenon of interest, components of evidence based question, purpose, approach, method, sampling, data collection, findings, conclusions, recommendations and implications of the research will be critically evaluated to observe the relevancy and adequacy of the researcher's efforts.

Statement of Phenomenon of Interest

The researcher has clearly identified the phenomenon of interest. The type of research opted by the author requires qualitative approach that can assess different researches on the same topic and providing adequate recommendation to the research problem and implications for improvement. The need of qualitative research used by Jennings is made obvious at the start of the article and the audience can easily get a view of his philosophical underpinnings regarding the research.

PICO

The components of evidence based question are broadly defined by Jennings. Elements like patient population and outcome of interest, i.e. 'P' and 'O' are presented in the research article. Comprehensive studies are needed for workforce in the field of nursing who face concepts like stress and burnout and identify solid evidence to implement preventive measures. Emotional fatigues, stress and burnouts represent the situation which occurs due to imbalances in work and social life. People involved in healthcare profession confront burnout and fatigue situation at some point in time. A significant impact has been observed of these problems on nurses' performance.

Purpose

Explicitly explained by Jennings, the purpose of the research was clear to conduct studies that identify causes, effects and preventive measures for reducing stress and burnout effect in the workforce in the nursing field. He has projected the significance of this research to nursing as they are responsible caretakers of health of the patients. Profession of nursing is very demanding. Increased workload, long working hours, and stressful demands create work and social life imbalances. Prolonged involvements in such situations affect the performance of nurses due to emotional fatigue and burnout conditions. This result in increased absenteeism rate, reduced cognitive ability to take critical decision, and emotionally disturbed behavior of nurses. It is essential to balance the patient to nurse ratio to maintain the workload and address the potential problems that arise due to unrealistic work conditions for nurses.

Approach

The approach used in the research is Qualitative. Nursing is important to identify the need to look back to the care and responsibility in the quality of life of people; for this reason Qualitative research is generally less expensive compared to quantitative research and is most effective in terms of information acquisition.

Method

The research is depending on finding out information that generate from the exploratory research. There is more subjectivity to the pattern of qualitative research compared to quantitative research methods. Qualitative methods have more space for the collection of information and data in terms of primary and secondary aspects. As mentioned ...