NURS FPX 4000 Assessment 2

Applying Library Research Skills

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Applying Library Research Skills

Research competencies must be developed to call the problems of nurses’ burnout in a comprehensive way. This can be achieved by done through a proper research which includes extensive literature search and comprehensive evaluation of published articles from credible databases. This skill enables researchers to select the most important findings, fill the voids in the knowledge base and propose interventions based on scientific evidence, which promote the reduction of burnout levels of the nurses and their health improvement (McCutcheon, Bjorkman & Fairchild, 2020). The effectiveness of nurses’ interventions can be improved by researching burnout causes. The obtained results would give a rise to develop sustainable solutions. And lastly, the library research approach concept serves as the pillar of the interdisciplinary approach of the “nursing burnout” phenomenon which is a complex issue. Those issues equipped with the mentioned tools researchers can have a look at those complex patterns and then it will result in evidence-based practices that are specific to the organizational and individual level which will enhance the health care settings resilience. Consequently, librarian research techniques become a starting point for nurses to change their knowledge into the scientifically proved answers.

Overview of the Problem

Healthcare workers’ burnout is a widespread issue in the industry that has an effect on both a high-quality patient care and personnel wellness. Widespread studies prove alarmingly high levels of nursing burnout lead to detrimental patient outcomes such as elevated mortality, significant medical mistakes, and decreased patient satisfaction (Aiken et al., 2012). The symptoms of burnout syndrome among nurses are coded in emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a looming feeling that they are not doing their best. Therefore, care quality and patient participation are usually reduced. Furthermore, nursing burnout goes beyond the clinical environment into the nursing influenced relationships with patients’ relatives, colleagues, and communities. Communication barriers, absence of caring, and overwhelmed family units will add more stress to the patients’ loved ones, thus reducing their level of service. The effects of burnout are far reaching and extends throughout the health care system causing staff retention to drop and bringing the integrity of care into question. Like a nurse, I can testify to the harmful effects that burnout causes not only to the patients but also to healthcare providers. The emotional stress, long hours and the heavy workloads ultimately take a toll on nurses’ mental and physical health and cause them to lose the luster of our well- respected occupation. On the contrary, I am determined to go beyond the simple identification task and take action. Through the advocacy for constructive work environments, the promotion of self-care strategies and the implementation of evidence-based interventions we may culminate an environment which integrates well-being in all aspects. Nurses, healthcare organization, policymakers and other stakeholder must involve in the collaboration to devise comprehensive solutions for tackling the phenomenon of burnout. Without concerted collaborations, optimum results for patients, families, and health care providers will keep their dream alive.

Finding Articles in Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journals

As a practicing health care provider, I have in the past identified a suitable method of finding all the reliable and verified academic paper that tackle the issue under review that is, the occurrence of nursing burnout. First, I cast the net broadly by employing keywords like “nursing burnout,” “nurse fatigue,” “workplace stress” and their synonyms at the relevant resources, including PubMed, CINAHL, and PsycINFO to give me an idea of the dimensions of the issue and its size and spread. To some degree the attempt was made to highlight the changing scope of the search and probably the most visible privileges. This was done by choosing the ” well-being”, “burnout prevention” and “human resources” terms from the search options. Also, since I had not mentioned domains yet in my earlier speeches, I decided to mention CDC and NIOSH for more accurate information. Taking advantage of scientific database as a refractory measure, was what I used to ensure that only evidence-based and peer-reviewed scholarly journals where used if needed. through this approach I could completely eliminate unreliable sources and would remain with genuine information at my disposal. To make the selection of the resources which I judged right and relevant by their intensity, accuracy and number of aspects covered, I picked those whose content fully explores various issues, for example, risk and protective factors, condition and treatment options of the patient. Moreover, during the attempt of finding the issues from RN’s point of view I had a few conversations with doctors. While they see other parts of the problems frankly new angles can be taken At the end, I am the one who got the knowledge of the nursing burnout cure because I was working with accuracy and compliance that ultimately made me realize what is the nursing burnout and why it happened.
Credibility and Accuracy of the Sources
As a nurse, credibility and accuracy of any resources we are going to use while exploring the issue of nurse burnout are the top-priority issues. To begin, I discussed the research findings from this topic area in detail. To explain this, sources will consist of the already existing peer-reviewed scientific journals. The most important thing of all is the fact that the investigators could therefore obtain substantial empirical evidence which made them feel that what they were doing was very true and relevant. Then, authors’ profiles were analyzed by evaluating their professional data then tracing the biases and eventually assessing their competence level and shared work in the nursing and healthcare research community. Thus, using cross-reference approach; I made my findings credible by obtaining extra facts from reliable sources like government reports, industry findings and expert advice. During the course of this course, I tried to examine my standpoint with a critical eye. Cautious examination of the methods utilized, the sizes of the samples taken and the quality of the study system is needed to determine the adequacy and the appropriateness of the research design in the management of multidimensional nursing burnout. The strictest proofing practices ensured that I everytime could rely on only the authentic information I received from my sources, which I believe is an important factor in the achievement of the exact results and the validity of my research findings.

Annotated Bibliography

Dyrbye, L. N., Shanafelt, T. D., Sinsky, C. A., Cipriano, P. F., Bhatt, J., Ommaya, A., … & Meyers, D. (2017). Burnout among health care professionals: A call to explore and address this underrecognized threat to safe, high-quality care. National Academy of Medicine Perspectives, 7(10), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.31478/201710b
This article indicates the occurrence of burnout wherein the medical workers are greatly affected and thus weakens the quality of care and patient safety. Dyrbye el al. acknowledges that burnout often exists in a hidden form and thus the possible solutions should be searched in this direction to create an efficient interventions for the subject. In healthcare professional field, workers can experience different types of work burnout, and consequently, aggravating the existing issue in our healthcare system and the health workers themselves. They manage and detect problems as well as prevent burnout syndrome by paying attention to the health needs of the medical staff rather than presenting morbid pictures. Moreover, they are involved in psychological education. The article also gives us an insight into the causes and effects of burnout other than just suggesting proof-based methods of controlling this situation. This piece offered some useful ways in which burnout shows up among healthcare staff. Probably the most remarkable finding is the huge intensity of the physician burnout shown in studies as it ranged from more than 50% downwards in the vast majority of specializations. Acting as the wake-up call, it opens one’s eyes to the magnitude of the problem as well as to the immediate need to adopt effective tools to tackle it.

West, C. P., Dyrbye, L. N., & Shanafelt, T. D. (2018). Physician burnout: Contributors, consequences and solutions. Journal of Internal Medicine, 283(6), 516-529. https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.12752
In the Journal of Internal Medicine studies by West, Dyrbye and Shanafelt allow us to have the holistic view of the burnout phenomenon in physicians and attributes that develop, implications found and the solution. Owing to this situation, the essays handle the aspects considered to be the major contributing factors to doctoral burnout posing as: overwork, administrative tasks, work–life balance, and organizational culture. As a matter of fact, the case focuses the terrible and serious consequences of burnout such as a deterioration of the patient care, a high rate of medical errors that doctors commit and a low wellbeing and health condition of doctors who experience burnout. These solutions are provided to deal with burnout the piece, and it clarifies the position of medical center support that strives to achieve work-life balance and to do interventions targeted at reducing the stresses that healthcare workers get. A writer can depict the guides and examples from which narcissism varies among the doctors and adds on the pressure of its extent. Therefore, the importance it brings about and the magnitude are tough to avoid.

Leiter, M. P., & Maslach, C. (2016). Latent burnout profiles: A new approach to understanding the burnout experience. Burnout Research, 3(4), 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burn.2016.09.001
Leiter and Maslach (2016) offer a different approach to perceive and comprehend burnout where latent profile illness analysis as an alternative is one the approach. This paper distinguishes the burnout as a multiply-leveled and multi-folded condition, which in turn has its different manifestations with corresponding levels of an underlying cause. Through LPA, authors aim to reveal the best-known profiles (i.e. cases of burnout) which are in fact non-conscious structures found in an individual. They acknowledge the fact that individuals have different burnout profiles of which they play a key role in educating people about why this is but also the methods or consequences of this behavior on productivity, well-being and burnout. Therefore, the experts and the relevant bodies must understand these unknown basics and use this knowledge to create targeted interventions that will answer the specific problems of each group of persons who are experiencing the burnout. Credible and scientifically ground data to be used for committees to develop strategies, for post-work recovery practices and to develop varying approaches at workplaces that provide diverse environments, unique and specific traits.

Salyers, M. P., Bonfils, K. A., Luther, L., Firmin, R. L., White, D. A., Adams, E. L., … & Rollins, A. L. (2017). The relationship between professional burnout and quality and safety in healthcare: A meta-analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 32(4), 475-482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-016-3886-9
This article aims to shed light on professional burnout and its importance. Healthcare decline and safety will occur as a result of this chronic conditions and literature reviews from different domains will be used to have a comprehensive understanding. The study reveals that cloudburst is one of the severe complications contributing to increased mortality and morbidity for the patients. Without a doubt, from the initial stage along with a comprehensive literature review of burnout, special focus will be given to the quality of healthcare and patient safety that inevitably, these are linked with. Data uncover that patient dissatisfaction because of the burnout of physicians leads to worse patient outcomes and poor health care quality. As a complementary approach, meta-analysis presents statistical evidence in the form of effect sizes and their 95% confidence intervals to support these findings that ultimately results in a fine-tuning understanding of the relationship between burnout and health outcomes. This is an article that healthcare providers and other leaders in policy making should read and understand as it provides a direct solution to burnout and a way of improving safety and quality of care.

What I Learned from the Study and Acquired Knowledge

The process of this annotated bibliography writing has allowed me to have a broader understanding of the complex problem of the burnout among healthcare workers in particular physicians and nurses. The study by Dyrbye et. al., (2017) has provided me with an excellent opportunity to understand the various dimensions of burnout from different research article written by West et.al., (2018), Leiter & Maslach (2016) and Salyers et. al. (2017) as the articles focus on the various factors contributing to burnout, its consequences and possible These research findings hence denote the pervasiveness of burnout in healthcare settings with a consequent decline in patient outcomes which includes but not limited to medical errors and decreased quality of care. They point out that the ways to deal with burnout are to provide means to make workload lighter, keep work-life balance and develop a solid culture inside organization. On top of that, Leiter & Maslach (2016) introduce a brand-new method to understand burnout by using latent profile analysis, which separates the different profiles of burnout into diverse individuals. Furthermore, Salyers et al. (2017) delve into the correlation of burnout and healthcare quality and safety, which is so serious it demands actions to mitigate the detrimental impact of burnout on patients. Ultimately, what I have learned during this undertaking will help me design an advocacy plan for the issue and a system of reforms that will be based on the available evidence aimed at solving the problem of burnout and achieving patient happiness and good healthcare outcomes.

References

Dyrbye, L. N., Shanafelt, T. D., Sinsky, C. A., Cipriano, P. F., Bhatt, J., Ommaya, A., … & Meyers, D. (2017). Burnout among health care professionals: A call to explore and address this underrecognized threat to safe, high-quality care. National Academy of Medicine Perspectives, 7(10), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.31478/201710b

Leiter, M. P., & Maslach, C. (2016). Latent burnout profiles: A new approach to understanding the burnout experience. Burnout Research, 3(4), 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burn.2016.09.001

Salyers, M. P., Bonfils, K. A., Luther, L., Firmin, R. L., White, D. A., Adams, E. L., … & Rollins, A. L. (2017). The relationship between professional burnout and quality and safety in healthcare: A meta-analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 32(4), 475-482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-016-3886-9

West, C. P., Dyrbye, L. N., & Shanafelt, T. D. (2018). Physician burnout: Contributors, consequences and solutions. Journal of Internal Medicine, 283(6), 516-529. https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.12752

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