Evidence Based Nursing Research

Running head: EVIDENCE BASED NURSING RESEARCH
Evidence Based Nursing Research
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EVIDENCE BASED NURSING RESEARCH
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Introduction:
Burnout in nursing is defined as the mental, physical and the emotional exhaustion. It can lead to
negative consequences in the compassionate patient care (Khamisa, et al., 2016). This essay aims to
critically analyze the article based on burnout and their impact The article is critically analyzed based on
the reliability, validity and findings. The research question, design and method has also been described.
The strength and weakness of the article has also been evaluated.
Critique:
Burnout is considered as one of the barrier in providing effective patient care by the nurses. The
research question formulated in the article is “Does self-compassion mitigate the relationship between
burnout and barriers to compassion?”.
Yes, in the article, the author has provided the reason to evaluate the importance of the research.
It has been described in the article that burnout possess negative consequence in the nurses and also
impair the ability to deliver effective and compassionate care (Dev, et al., 2018) Apart from its adverse
consequences in the nursing field, not much research has been done. In the article has explained the
background of the topic supported by the literature.
The design method used in the article is the cross sectional and the observational design. The
research method used is non-random convenience sampling (Dev, et al., 2018).
Rigorous method of design is of two types: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative research is
defined as systematic investigation by using computational and statistical techniques, which can be
verified by the experimental or observational means (Morse, 2016). Hence it can be stated that the
research design and method is rigorous.
The study is defined as valid it measures what is intended for. The main aim of the article is to
evaluate the effectiveness of self-compassion to alleviate the barrier between the burnout in the nurses