Article Critique of ‘Workplace Bullying in the OR’ Problem & Purpose

In this article, the statement of the problem concerns issues of workplace bullying and has looked at two medical centers. Hence, the purpose of this article is to describe workplace bullying by looking at the people it affects who are perioperative RNs, surgical technologists, and unlicensed perioperative personnel. Therefore, the purpose of the article was to determine whether demographic variables such as years of experience, age, and gender among others were things that predicted workplace bullying. From this, that the problem statement and purpose of the article are well defined, clear and precise for the reader to identify. The researchers have defined the project appropriately regarding both scope and depth, which culminates in a well-researched work. Workplace bullying is a current issue that continues to affect healthcare providers and organizations (Robson, 2011). Therefore, research conducted by other scholars has shown how detrimental bullying consequences are to individuals and organizations.

Significance

The article brings out the important significance of the issue at hand by demonstrating that workplace bullying involves perceived power imbalance in the work environment, which creates hostility. Moreover, workplace bullying is an action that has been well documented by general populations. Therefore, healthcare providers and organizations should understand its consequences. Therefore, for the clinical practice, gaining an understanding of workplace bullying issues is a remedy to providing patients with better medical care. Furthermore, the work environment will be friendly for the healthcare providers resulting in enhanced productivity and improved medical care services for the general population.

The aspect of research theory has also been captured in the significance of the arguments raised in the article and has looked at describing and giving guidance to the translation process of the research into good practice, which looks at process models. Secondly, the theoretical approaches of this research have managed to create an understanding and explanation of the items that influence implementation outcomes like using the determinant frameworks and implementation theories. Lastly, research theory is significant in the arguments raised because it helps in evaluating implementation methods and strategies.

Regarding knowledge and policy development, the argument is good because of the importance ascribed to having a solution that will see the elimination of workplace bullying in healthcare organizations. Moreover, since workplace bullying affects many people, knowledge should then be relayed to all people in an attempt to reduce the consequences and reoccurrence of such events in other organizations, companies, and institutions among other entities.

Literature Review

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Nonetheless, using very old article is somehow important when the authors are looking at giving their readers a clear background and history of the problem. However, for workplace bullying, the authors should use recent articles to emphasize the relevance of their study in the modern world. This section also acknowledges that knowledge gaps are present and need to be researched further because they will bring out a clearer view of the problem and solutions can be attained promptly. For the authors, giving a clear definition to bullying was important because of the numerous definitions presented by different scholars. Evidence present show that key literature was cited accurately in the article, for example, the use of Hutchinson et al. new model of bullying helped in guiding the study. The model looked at having ‘organizational antecedents’ because they facilitated the existence of bullying in the work environment (Saunders & Rojon, 2011).
Human Subjects

For any study to succeed, researchers need to consider the human rights of their subjects. For this study, this was well taken care of and implemented. They attached a cover letter at the beginning of each survey that described the risks, aims, and benefits of participating in the study. However, before giving the two medical centers the survey materials, which were intended for data collection purposes, the authors needed to seek approval from the two hospitals. Therefore, they went ahead, explained their purpose of wanting to collect data in the hospitals, and received approval from the institution's review board (IRB). Later on, they decided to meet with the nurse managers under perioperative departments to introduce the study to the rest of the team. Moreover, they had to attend their staff meetings in an attempt to familiarize themselves with the whole team. The subjects were at liberty to either take part in the study or opt out by simply failing to return the survey. For those who returned the survey, they were in consent and fully understood the study (Chipps et al., 2013).

Method

The article has managed to use the descriptive research design because the study is looking at finding out what is the whole issue of workplace bullying by looking at several people affected in the OR. Through the descriptive design, the researchers have managed to categorize their information in ways such as gender, ethnicity, and age patterns, which was later organized, tabulated, depicted, and analyzed using different instruments such as the SPSS software (Chipps et al., 2013).

For this study, survey research was the type of measurement applied, and summary reports of data given included measures of central tendency such as standard deviation, means, and the correlation between their continuous variables. For their categorical variables, the…