Workplace Stress and Nurses

¶ … Grounded Theory

The phenomena to be studied at the workplace using qualitative studies is workplace stress on employees. In particular, the study will take into consideration the impact of stress on nurses in their workplace.

Grounded theory has substantial significance for the reason that it offers clear, progressive guiding principles for undertaking qualitative research, provides distinctive approaches for handling the methodical stages of analysis, rationalizes and assimilates data gathering and analysis, progresses conceptual analysis of qualitative data and legitimizes qualitative research as scientific analysis (McKinney, 2017).

As aforementioned, the phenomena examined in this study is workplace stress. Nursing is considered to be a very persistent and vigorous job. Nurses experience high and intricate demands in their day to day jobs, combined by a great deal of responsibility. As a result, the nurses experience a great deal of workplace stress. As a result, this may significantly affect their level of caring and also their workplace performances.

1. Research Question

The main purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between nurses' workplace stress and their caring behaviors in their organizational setting. The research question is how does workplace stress have an impact on the caring behavior of nurses and their work performance?

2. Sample

The sample of the study will include 70 nurses working in ten different public and private general hospitals. The sample will include 50 female nurses and 20 male nurses. The criteria for the sample will necessitate nurses who have at least 1 year of work experience and will close relationship with patients in their workplace. This is to ensure that the nurses are able to provide comprehensive information regarding the impact of workplace stress.

3. Data Collection Method

Grounded theory offers an inductive method with the main purpose of providing a concept that has the potential to elucidate or construe and understand a phenomenon. The data will be collected through individual, semi-structured interviews with the nurses. The main reason for selecting this particular approach is to be able to capture the variety and assortment of experiences of the different nurses for at least the past one year in their workplace to understand the various stresses faced and how they have influenced their performance and workplace caring behavior. In addition, through such individual interviews, it will be possible to seize the vivid and rich memories of their stresses and therefore give detailed information regarding their experiences (Quinn, 2013).

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