7118SOH – Evidence-based Practice and Research Principles Assignment Sample 2023
Project Summary
This study focuses on investigating the major effect of the coronavirus pandemic on burnout among Healthcare professionals for providing better services and contributing to reducing disease burden globally. The outbreak of covid-19 has created chaos and crisis on a global basis and Healthcare professionals are at the frontline warriors for fighting against controlling the pandemic and saving the lives of people.
The study is going to focus on multiple aspects and consequences that have been faced by Health Care professionals during providing treatment and care to the people. The challenges and difficulties such as increasing working hours, increasing operational safety and mental and emotional health issues are going to be discussed and analysed for understanding risks of burnout by Healthcare Professionals during the covid-19 period.
Project Details
Purpose of the project
The purpose of this study is to understand different challenges and difficulties faced by Health Care professionals during coronavirus for providing services to the needed people and contribute to reducing this burden. The study also aimed towards understanding the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on job satisfaction and the risk of burnout for health professionals in the UK.
As argued by Greenbaum, Stoklosa & Murphy (2020), numerous Healthcare professionals have lost their lives while providing patient care during coronavirus in the line of duty. This study is an exploration of the impact of the covid-19 outbreak in job role, health, emotional and mental status and perspectives of Healthcare professionals.
Research Question: What are the major challenges faced by healthcare professionals in providing patient care by balancing occupational safety and health?
Desired outcome
- To identify the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the increasing risk of Healthcare professional burnout
- To examine the contribution of coronavirus on the mental and emotional health of Healthcare professionals
- To identify the major challenges faced by healthcare professionals in providing the best patient care during covid-19 periods
- To explore adopted innovative strategies by Healthcare professionals for saving lives during coronavirus pandemic by maintenance and principles for reducing disease burden for developing a recommendation to reduce risk of burnout in health care professionals
Research design
The study aims to explore the role played by a coronavirus in creating the risk of Health Care professional burnout percentage by increasing their occupational risk during long working hours. As argued by Yıldırım, Arslan & Özaslan (2020), positivism philosophy will be used in this study for exploring developed objectives in order to identify the effect of coronavirus on burn out a percentage of Healthcare professionals.
Consideration of positivism research philosophy will help in developing appropriate hypotheses based on factual knowledge gathered from existing literature and multiple cases. In the words of Luo et al. (2020), the choice of positivism philosophy fits best for the identification of multiple approaches of coronavirus that has an influence on increasing burn out the risk of Healthcare professionals.
Collecting facts and knowledge from existing literature and case studies will help in understanding changes in duties and working periods of Health Care professionals during the covid-19 period for providing services to the affected people. A Positive approach will also help in understanding phenomena associated with research topics by providing required information for testing hypotheses by collecting and comparing data and facts (Alsubaie et al. 2019).
Deductive approaches are appropriate for identifying the effect of coronavirus on burnout of Health Care professionals by collecting organisational data of Healthcare organisations on HRM and performance management during the crisis period.
Qualitative methodology is selected for developing appropriate findings and justifying the research objectives of this study. According to the view of Sethi et al. (2020), the major reasons for selecting qualitative methodology are a requirement of existing literature, helping in exploring burnout risk of healthcare professionals in a descriptive way, and the benefit of exploratory studies.
Consideration of existing literature is a prime principle of qualitative methodology for understanding research areas effectively by analysis and findings and discussion of previous research work (de Pablo et al. 2020). In this study, employees’ record of Healthcare organisations during covid-19 outbreak periods is potential data for analysing the effect of covid-19 on employee burnout.
As argued by Crespo et al. (2021), information and reports provided by media, publications House and hospital records will help in understanding different kinds of challenges faced by doctors and nurses for providing their services to their patients for maintaining their nursing principles and reducing disease burden.
The qualitative methodology focuses on a systematic review of existing literature and developing themes for comparing findings of different sources in order to develop a new conclusion. This process will contribute to developing quality results and identifying major effects of coronavirus in Healthcare professional burnout.
As argued by Xiang et al. (2020), a qualitative methodology that included thematic and descriptive analysis will help in focusing on exploring the circumstances and phenomena from multiple dimensions in order to add unique perspectives for the development of new conclusions for contributing to helping Healthcare professionals balance in their job role and personal life with innovative strategy.
The qualitative methodology has the advantage of understanding attitudes, providing insight, completing the investigation in minimum time with low cost and easy explanation of complex situations and sensitive subjects. According to the view of Ornell et al. (2020), the qualitative methodology will help in describing different effects such as emotional breakdown, depression, physical operational threats and duty towards patient care along with their relationship with the risk of Healthcare professional burnout while contributing to declining disease burden for human safety and development.
Representations of multiple effects on burnout on professional practices of the employees of hospitals will help in developing risk mitigation strategies for future dealing with similar issues. In addition, the study will also contribute to representations of multiple dimensions of covid-19 effects of healthcare professionals and take initiatives.
Principle methods
Data Collection method
A secondary data collection method is going to be used for collecting required information for analysing multiple effects of coronavirus on increasing health professional burnout risk. As influenced by Morgan et al. (2020), the secondary methodology of collecting data is associated with selecting potential existing resources by previous authors for analysing their findings and drawing appropriate conclusions based on understanding and present circumstances.
Researchers will collect 15 journals from secondary databases including ProQuest and Google scholar for collecting required data to initiate analysis and development of findings. Data will be collected by using inclusive and exclusive criteria of the PRISMA model (Snyder, 2019). Four stages of the PRISMA model; identification, screening, eligibility and inclusion will be implemented for the identification of the final 15 journals on employee burnout during the coronavirus period in the Health Care Organisation.
Identification is associated with the collection of multiple journal articles with an adaptive sampling method from different secondary sources. As argued by Mohajan (2018), screening steps focus on the elimination of unwanted, irrelevant and duplicate articles from the list in order to narrow it down.
This method will help in identifying high-quality articles for collecting required data to analyse multiple aspects and consequences associated with the performance of Healthcare professionals during covid-19. In the words of Ragab & Arisha (2018), identification of quality resource work of previous authors will also help in developing quality conclusions for contributing to growth and development of knowledge on health employees; burnout is the effect of covid-19.
The third step is eligibility where the quality of methodology and findings of articles is analysed for identifying their relevance and worth for inclusion in the research work. According to the view of Fidahic et al. (2020), eligibility focuses on examining objectives, implementation methodology, consideration and findings of articles for considering the further steps. Examination of objectives helps in analysing whether they are align with the objective of present research or not for consideration as potential data.
As argued by Aithal (2017), similarities of objectives and Research purpose are necessary for maintaining authentication and transparency in data collection and justification processes. Analysis of implemented methodology is considered articles is also necessary to understand their capabilities and contributions for developing quality findings in order to create potential research scopes for further study.
According to the view of Melnikovas (2018), the last step of the PRISMA model is included where all the articles that have met previous requirements in identification, screening and eligibility are selected as collected data.
Figure 1: PRISMA Model
(Source: Al-Ababneh, 2020)
Sampling strategy
Non-probability sampling is appropriate for the selection of appropriate data from multiple secondary sources to collect quality information for proceeding with the data analysis process in order to develop appropriate and effective findings on the effect of coronavirus on burnout of Healthcare employees.
According to the view of Budianto (2020), based on the non-probability sampling category, subjective sampling will be considered for the selection of journal articles. Subjective sampling is associated with the selection of a sample based on a considered subject and judgmental basis.
This sampling technique provided is dependent on the researcher for selecting an appropriate sample based on individual judgement by considering the purpose and subjective necessity of research work (Al-Ababneh, 2020).
Subjective sampling Framework focuses on the collection of sample size and articles based on research objectives for the collection of required data in order to justify objectives and develop appropriate conclusions for contributing to understanding research areas effectively.
As argued by Gear, Eppel & Koziol-Mclain (2018), the subjective consideration for collecting samples is the perceived risk and status of Healthcare professionals while dealing with pandemic situations for meditating and resilience. The impact of increasing covid-19 cases globally and the pressure of developing appropriate solutions for saving lives is another potential consideration of selecting appropriate journals articles for collecting quality secondary data.
Coronavirus has contributed to the emergence of serious mental and psychological issues and health professionals for dealing with an emotional and mental breakdown due to increasing crisis and chaos for the shortage of hospital beds and medicines.
According to the view of Devi (2017), HRM management by Healthcare organisations is also considered for judgement in subjective sampling for identification of quality articles to ensure the development of appropriate findings for justification of research objectives.
Literature search strategy
A literature search strategy for the identification of appropriate journal articles for reviewing existing literature and collection of appropriate data is going to be followed based on terms, keywords and citation searching. In the words of Gear, Eppel & Koziol-Mclain (2018), a literature search is initiated by selecting appropriate terms and keyboards from the research topic that describe the purpose and categories of searching.
Healthcare employees burnout during the covid period, perceived risk of nurses and doctors for treating covid patients, emotional and mental background status of Health Care professionals in covid-19, disease burden and frontline warriors of covid-19 are the major terms applicable for searching appropriate literature based on the considered topic.
According to the view of Devi (2017), consideration of different terms associated with a considered research topic will help in exploring associated areas and collecting the most relevant articles and journals for reviewing of literature. This process will also help in maintaining authentication and relevance of research findings and contribute to the improvement of validity and reliability for future implications.
Ethical considerations of maintaining transparency, avoiding manipulation, maintenance of privacy and integrity and honesty management are going to be followed during the data collection and analysis process. In the words of Melnikovas (2018), proper credits to the authors of identified literature by implementing appropriate sampling and literature identifying strategies are going to be provided for maintaining the legacy of providing credits through citation.
Transparency in developing findings by avoiding any kind of manipulation and interference with developed results will be followed for shedding light on the associated risk of burnout of Healthcare professionals during the covid-19 period. According to the view of Fidahic et al. (2020), identification of major effects on employee burnout will help in suggesting adaptation of appropriate initiatives by Healthcare organisations for retaining their employees and maintaining work-life balance.
Providing flexibility in dealing with an emotional and mental breakdown due to high work pressure and long working hours along with maintenance of psychological aspects for dealing with increased mortality rate can help in the improvement of Healthcare HRM. In the words of Melnikovas (2018), integrity and honesty in providing conclusions are going to be followed during data analysis procedures for maintaining reliability in the discussion and analysis process.
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