Workplace stress and nurses' caring behaviors: a grounded theory study

¶ … 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.

Assignment 2: Observer Preference

The involvement and engagement of the researcher in the study without a doubt has a significant influence on the participants being studied. In this particular case, the presence of an observer could definitely impact the study being conducted. The observer can have a constructive and positive impact through overall participation. This is because it enables the researchers to obtained unbiased information from the participants. The researcher alone can have a prejudiced perspective in some regard and therefore an observer is beneficial. In this case, it will be beneficial in capturing and understanding the impact that workplace stress has on the nurses. On the other hand, the presence of an observer can in fact have a negative impact on the study. This is because while conducting research, the participants may be negatively affected and change their behavior patterns and in the end may provide a bias report for the overall study. In addition, the observer can have an impact on the study in the sense that they can give a prejudiced report as they are human beings who are subject to go through errors and therefore can misconstrue or forget important information and therefore have distorted results (Kawulich, 2005).