Assessing and Improving Health Care Worker Well-Being (Lab Report Sample)

Assessing and Improving Health Care Worker Well-Being
In summary, the article describes the findings of a study titled "The Science of Health Care Worker Burnout Assessing and Improving Health Care Worker Well-Being," which was conducted to understand better the factors contributing to health care worker burnout. The study found that prescription drugs and antidepressants, as well as one's working environment, play significant roles in developing health care worker burnout. Prescription drugs and antidepressants often lead to weight gain, resulting in sleep deprivation for workers who experience complex night shifts. This sleep delay has been shown to increase feelings of guilt associated with not being able to work more hours or not meeting productivity standards (Rehder et al., 2021). Although stressors such as a long workday, on-call shifts, and understaffing are often causal factors in the development of healthcare worker burnout. The article claims that healthcare workers who use prescription drugs and antidepressants often gain weight and can experience sleep deprivation by working nights. In turn, this delay in sleep increases feelings of guilt due to the inability to meet productivity standards or work more hours.
The standard bar graph
The type of study used in the article
The type of study reported in the article is qualitative research. Qualitative research is a method of inquiry that explains and describes social phenomena. This study explores understandings and meanings associated with a specific topic within a particular context. The article titled "The Science of Health Care Worker Burnout: Assessing and Improving Health Care Worker Well-Being" presents the results of qualitative interviews conducted by the author. The author states that her study involved an exploratory investigation of how prescription drugs, such as benzodiazepines, antidepressants, and other medications, may contribute to health care worker burnout. The author states that these medications often lead to weight gain and insomnia, which may cause health care workers to feel a sense of guilt (Zhou et al., 2020). Due to sleep deprivation and feelings of guilt, health care workers may begin to experience stress or anxiety. The author goes on further and explains that many substances affect the way people feel about themselves. These feelings can affect one's physical and emotional well-being.
What type of graph or table did you choose for your lab?
The article uses a standard bar graph to display the findings of their study. Standard bar graphs compare categories within one variable. In other words, a bar graph that compares various types of cheese will assign a value to every kind of cheese to determine which type is most popular. This is not how the author used the standard bar graph. The author used the table to compare different variables between two groups and all three groups and their variables with one another. Although this method is slightly unconventional, it provides essential information about all three variables: prescription drugs, antidepressant medications, and health care worker burnout (error-fatigue).