For this section of your research proposal assignment, you will focus on the implementation plan, which includes considerations for ethics, recruitment practices, and a plan for how you will collect your data. Please note that you will not explain how to analyze your data in this section, but rather how you will go about collecting the data.
The following components must be addressed:
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Effective Strategies to Maintain Emotional Health for Nurses
Sampling
Since the research proposal focuses on the emotional health of nurses, the study’s
participants will consist of nurses. The research will include a sampling size of 50 -100 nurses.
Although nurses of all ages are welcome to participate, I would want a variety of nurses between
ages 23 and 65 years. As mentioned, the sample size will be 50-100 nurses. This sample size is
appropriate for the study because it is a better representative of the nursing population. As a good
representation of the nursing population, the large sample size will deliver more accurate results,
according to Andrade (2020). This is because it will contribute to lower standards of deviation
and smaller margins of error. Additionally, because I will be able to manage the risk of reporting
false positive/negative results, the sample size is appropriate for the study. The precision of the
results will be higher with a larger sample size. In addition, this sample size is acceptable for the
study because it will enable me to collect more data, which I may utilize to address the research
questions.
Reliability
A structured questionnaire will be utilized to collect information about the participants.
The questionnaire will gather demographic data, nurse burnout, work characteristics, and
community resources for nurses. Among the demographic information to be gathered are gender,
educational degree, age, and daily hours of working and sleeping time. When it comes to nurse
burnout, various elements will be evaluated including patient safety, comfort/confidence, job
retention, and professional satisfaction. The work characteristics that will be included in the
questionnaire include years of experience as a nurse, working hours, salary, working shifts, and
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practice setting. Since the research will attempt to obtain information on mental health support
and resources for nurses, the questionnaire will also cover elements related to community
resources such as leadership, communication, and organizational support and resources.
To collect essential information, respondents will be asked to recall their first year of
employment as a nurse when responding to the questionnaire. My data collection process will be
reliable and consistent as it will involve several steps. One of these steps is ensuring voluntary
consent in answering the survey questions. Assuring the participants that their information will
be kept private and that neither their data nor email addresses will be used to link them to any
identifying information is the second step to maintaining consistency in the data collection
process. With that assurance, participants will be willing to share accurate information and
answer the questions truthfully, improving the reliability of the data.To maintain consistency, I
will also inform the respondents of their right to participate in the study before they complete the
questionnaire. The questionnaires will be sent to participants with enough time to complete them,
and after they have, I will assemble them and statistically analyze the data.
The measurement tool that will be employed in this research is the occupational burnout
inventory (OBI). OBI is a survey instrument utilized to assess burnout and it covers two essential
areas including exhaustion aspects such as cognitive and physical elements as well as
disengagement from work aspects such as work content or negative attitudes (Edú-Valsania et
al., 2022). In this research, OBI will be utilized to assess the perception of participants of burnout
during the past month. The participants will be asked to respond to respond by utilizing a 5-point
Likert-type and the scale will involve 4 aspects. These aspects are work-related burnout, personal
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burnout, over-commitment, and patient-related burnout. For each subscale, the values will range
from 0-100 with a score of at least 60 designated as high burnout.
My measurement tool is reliable it has been utilized in various studies providing accurate
measures of each burnout dimension. The burnout dimensions addressed by OBI have been
confirmed in various studies involving nurses. For instance, Nobre et al. (2019) assessed burnout
levels among nurses operating in emergency services by utilizing OBI to assess the degree of
psychological and physical exhaustion experienced by nurses at a personal level and in relation
to their work. Using this tool, the researchers in this study managed to accurately measure
burnout at all levels. Hence, the instrument is reliable.
Validity
I will ensure I have a valid sample size by first considering the sample size variables. I
will do so by establishing a procedure to determine which nurse fits and doesn’t fit my
population size. As the research is based on the emotional health management of nurses, the
answers are personal and will most likely differ from each other as everyone has different
stressors. However, I will be looking for a pattern in the responses provided to get an idea of
what causes burnout in nursing and how nurses manage their emotional well being. I will
thoroughly go over each response and analyze them to see their similarities and differences.
Since I am a nurse myself who has experienced the feeling of burnout, I will have a better
understanding of the responses and interpret them properly. I will also pay close attention to the
community resources listed by the participants for nurses emotional well being and research
what each resource offers. By gathering this data, I will be able to identify strategies in
maintaining emotional health for nurses.
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References
Andrade, C. (2020). Sample size and its importance in research. Indian journal of psychological
medicine, 42(1), 102-103. https://doi.org/10.4103%2FIJPSYM.IJPSYM_504_19
Edú-Valsania, S., Laguía, A., & Moriano, J. A. (2022). Burnout: A review of theory and
measurement. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(3),
1780. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031780
Nobre, D. F. R., Rabiais, I. C. M., Ribeiro, P. C. P. S. V., & Seabra, P. R. C. (2019). Burnout
assessment in nurses from a general emergency service. Revista brasileira de
enfermagem, 72, 1457-1463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0870
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