Assignment Week 7 - NURS 6052
Evidence-Based Project, Part 2: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews
Presented by:
Name: Ariel Cordova Lopez
Date: April 10, 2021
Workplace Related Stress among the Nurses
Workplace stress is an important for healthcare administrators.
Workplace stress can result from factors such as staffing ratios, demanding tasks, and the environment.
An environment free of stressors is recommended for efficient delivery of care (Alenezi et al., 2018).
This promotes efficiency, promotes a culture of safety, and achieve better health outcomes from patients (Javadi-Pashaki & Darvishpour, 2019).
Job satisfaction levels by nurses highly impacted by level of stress and affects the quality of services provided by nurses.
Development of PICOT Question
P– population= Patients in critical care unit
I - Intervention = nursing under stressful environment
C – other nursing environments
O – Low levels of nurse satisfaction (Melnyk et al., 2009)
T – No timeframe
DATABASES
CINAHL Plus with Full Text, which is a vital databank for nursing investigation and research
PsycINFO, which is committed to peer reviewed literature in mental and behavioral sciences.
Medline, which avails journal articles in life medicine.
ProQuest Nursing & Related Health Source in nursing allied health, unconventional and complementary medicine theoretical, critique and indexing exploration outcomes.
Levels of Evidence
Work-related stress factors in nurses (Dobnik et al., 2018)
Level II- quantitative cross-sectional epidemiological design (John Hopkins).
Engaged 983 nurses from 21 Slovenian hospitals, and a questionnaire was given containing demographic and job characteristics to respondents.
work-related stress among nurses (Vernekar, S. P., & Shah, 2018)
Level I- quantitative cross-sectional study on work related stress among the nurses. (John Hopkins)
Self-structured anonymous questionnaire with demographic and job related details were given and Expanded Nursing Stress Scale to rate stress in a 1000 bedded tertiary care hospital.
Levels of Evidence
Workplace stress among psychiatric nurses (Clements & Land, 2003)
This study is to examine and show the cause and prevalence of not only burnout but also stress among nurses.
Level II- quantitative cross-sectional analytical study (John Hopkins).1015 registered psychiatric nurses were surveyed.
Job satisfaction, burnout, and stress among pediatric nurses (Kim & Sekol, 2014)
The study aimed to evaluate job satisfaction, exhaustion, sympathy,fulfilment, and work-related pressure amongst pediatric nurses
Level II- quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted in a 520-bed children hospital on 240 nurses working in various units were surveyed (John Hopkins). Professional quality of life scale was used.
Strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research.
Identification of knowledge gaps in other research studies hence enhancing the practice.
Reduction of bias when determining answers to research questions.
Gives an insight into application of the research study in current practice.
References
Alenezi, A. M., Aboshaiqah, A., & Baker, O. (2018). Work‐related stress among nursing staff working in government hospitals and primary health care centers. International journal of nursing practice, 24(5), e12676.
Dobnik, M., Maletič, M.,& Skela-Savič, B. (2018).Work-related stress factors in nurses at Slovenian hospitals–a cross-sectional study. Slovenian journal of public health, 57(4), 192- 200. doi: 10.2478/sjph-2018- 0024
Clements K, R. P. N., & Land C, R. P. N. (2003). Workplace stress among psychiatric nurses. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services, 41(4), 32. https://doi.org/10.3928/0279-3695-20030401-12
Javadi-Pashaki, N., & Darvishpour, A. (2019). Survey of stress and coping strategies to predict the general health of nursing staff. Journal of education and health promotion, 8.
Kim, S. C., & Sekol, M. A. (2014). Job satisfaction, burnout, and stress among pediatric nurses in various specialty units at an acute care hospital. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v4n12p115
Melnyk, B. M. , Fineout-Overholt, E. , Stillwell, S. B. & Williamson, K. M. (2009). Evidence-Based Practice: Step by Step: Igniting a Spirit of Inquiry. AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 109(11), 49-52. doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000363354.53883.58.
Stillwell, S. B. , Fineout-Overholt, E. , Melnyk, B. M. & Williamson, K. M. (2010). Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step: Asking the Clinical Question. AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 110(3), 58-61. doi: 0.1097/01.NAJ.0000368959.11129.79.
Vernekar, S. P., & Shah, H. (2018). A study of work-related stress among nurses in a tertiary care hospital in Goa. International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, 5(2), 657-661. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394- 6040.ijcmph20180246