Shift work

Nurses’ Work Hours I have been a staff nurse in the emergency room for fourteen years. I have worked a variety of 8, 10, 12, and even 16 hour shifts. I currently am working 8 and 12-hour shifts on nights. Previously, I also worked some 12-hour day shifts. I personally have been struggling with working the 12-hour shifts. My commute to work is 1 hour one way and I have fallen asleep several times driving home from work. The last four hours of my shift I experience great

Night Shift Increase Patient Care Errors? A nurse’s role is to advocate for the patient, provide care to them and their families, to do no harm, to promote healthcare and to alleviate suffering (AMA, 2015). With this being said, does working the night shift increase patient care errors? The human body is regulated by the circadian rhythms that tell the body when to sleep and wake, so does this altered sleep pattern have a correlation with patient care errors? When nurses work the night shift, this

be a nurse is the rumors of long shifts. The rumors are actually true. “Logbooks completed by 393 hospital staff nurses revealed that participants usually worked longer than scheduled and that approximately 40 percent of the 5,317 work shifts they logged exceeded twelve hours.” (Rogers) These long hours are dangerous not only to the nurses but to the quality or their service and patience experience. Nurses are at a higher chance of error and burnout when they work more than 40 hours week . Nurse shortages

healthier work culture where there is an equal life work balance and nurses are given enough time to recuperate from prior shifts. The ANA has made recommendations to nurses and employers to combat this problem. Nurses are suggested to receive 7-9 hours of sleep in a conductive sleeping environment, take account commute to work prior to accepting a job offer, as well as alternative transportation to and from work such as taxi bus, car pooling. As for the employers, limit work weeks to 40 hours, work shifts

Day shift vs. Night shiftAs nurses pursue their careers, they are often faced with the challenge of picking what shifts to work. Both day and night shifts have their own advantages and disadvantages and so when choosing a shift many factors are put into consideration. Night shifts have physiological effects to the body. One of these effectsis due to the disturbances in the circadian rhythm. A bundle of cells in the anterior hypothalamus,known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus,function as the pacemaker

accommodate a healthy work culture where there is an equal life work balance and nurses are given enough time to recuperate from prior shifts. The ANA has made recommendations for nurses and employers to combat this problem. Nurses are suggested to receive 7-9 hours of sleep in a conductive sleeping environment, take account commute to work prior to accepting a job offer, as well as alternative transportation to and from work such as taxi bus, car pooling. As for the employers, limit work weeks to 40 hours

(2015). Effects of 13-hour 20-minute work shifts on law enforcement officers' sleep, cognitive abilities, health, quality of life, and work performance. Police Quarterly, 18(3), 293-337. doi:10.1177/1098611115584910 Bell, L. B., Virden, T. B., Lewis, D. J., & Cassidy, B. A. examine the impact of a longer-than-average compressed workweek on police officers’ sleep, cognitive abilities, health, quality of life, and work performance. Data collected during the study

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manager job description is to manage all or part of a healthcare facility (Healthcare Manager Job Description, 2010). A health care manager’s role will vary depending on type and size of the facility they work in. A health care manager in a large hospital may oversee one department but work with several health care managers to ensure that the hospital runs smoothly and evidently. But at a smaller facility a health care manager may oversee the entire facility. The role of health care managers

“Fatigue contributed to a serious medication error in Wisconsin. After working a 16-hour shift, a labor/delivery nurse came in the next morning to work another shift. Because she’d had only a few hours off between shifts, she’d arranged to sleep at the hospital. Late in the morning of the second day, she admitted a young patient. The physician had ordered an antibiotic to be given right away. The nurse picked up what she thought was the antibiotic and hung it without scanning the patient or the medication