Better sleep: antidote to on-the-job fatigue

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• Personal Author:
  Caruso, Claire C.
• Description:
  Getting enough good-quality sleep each day is important not just for nurses' personal health and safety but for patient safety, too. Like the basic need to eat and drink, the need to sleep is critical for maintaining life and health-and for working safely. Sleeping 7 to 8 hours per night is linked to a wide range of better health and safety outcomes. Long work hours and shift work, in contrast, are tied to sleep disturbances and health and safety risks for nurses, including declines in mental function and physical ability, reduction in immunologic function, and higher rates of depression, injury, heart disease, GI disorders, mood disturbances, and cancer. Multiple studies have found that performance in a person who has been awake for 17 hours or more resembles that of someone with alcohol intoxication. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular System Delivery Of Health Care Fatigue Health Personnel Immune System Men Mental Disorders Mental Health Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders Stress, Psychological Women

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• Keywords:
  Cardiovascular-disease Cardiovascular-system-disease Cardiovascular-system-disorders Diseases Heart Humans Immunologic-disorders Injuries Medical-care Medical-personnel Mental-fatigue Mental-health Mental-processes Mental-stress Nurses Nursing Risk-factors Sleep-deprivation Sleep-disorders

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• ISSN:
  1930-5583
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  45-46
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040649
• Citation:
  Am Nurse Today 2012 May; 7(5):45-46
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance ; Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Nurse Today
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8042e76ee2211a89c08c073eb20b0d5117ddcc5d676acc23244d1ac72efa9e37fea08be7f577f6e9e6251da9e561de6dc91bc058dc0a275a79b41c843d60d44b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193440/cdc_193440_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.28 MB ]