Position Statement: Reducing Fatigue Associated with Sleep Deficiency and Work Hours in Nurses

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• Personal Author:
  Baldwin CM ; Berger A ; Caruso, Claire C. ; Chasens ER ; Landis C ; Redeker NS ; Scott LD ; Trinkoff A
• Description:
  The American Academy of Nursing promotes management practices in health care organizations and strategies in the nurse's personal life to support sleep health in nurses and, as a result, an alert nursing workforce fit to perform their jobs and more able to live healthy lives. Society requires critical nursing services around the clock. Consequently, shift work and long work hours are common in health care organizations and negatively affect a significant percent of nurses. The American Academy of Nursing recommends the following actions to address these concerns. 1. Urge nurses and employers of health care organizations to educate themselves about the health risks linked to shift work and long work hours and the evidence-based strategies to reduce those risks.2. Urge employers of health care organizations to incorporate evidence-based practices in the design of their employees' work schedules and establish policies, programs, practices, and systems at work that promote sleep health and an alert workforce. 3. Urge employers to promote a workplace culture that promotes sleep health to achieve optimum functioning, health, safety, and sense of well-being of their workforce. 4. Encourage employers to recognize the role of shift work, long shifts, and nurse fatigue on turnover, absenteeism, patient safety, and related costs. 5. Urge experts to develop additional continuing education courses for nurses and nursing managers that relay evidence-based personal practices and workplace interventions to maximize sleep health and alertness in nurses. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Family Fatigue Health Personnel Mental Disorders Mental Health Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Shift Work Schedule Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders Staff Development

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• Keywords:
  Families Health Care Humans Long Work Hours Management-personnel Management Personnel Mental-fatigue Mental-processes Nurses Nursing Occupational-hazards Performance-capability Physiological-fatigue Policy Public-health Recommendations Risk-factors Safety-education Safety Practices Shift-work Shift-workers Sleep-deprivation Sleep-disorders Training Work-intervals Work-life Balance Work-organization Work-performance Worker-health Work Operations Work Schedules

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• ISSN:
  0029-6554
• 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
• Volume:
  65
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050733
• Citation:
  Nurs Outlook 2017 Nov-Dec; 65(6):766-768
• Contact Point Address:
  Claire C. Caruso, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1150 Tusculum Avenue MS C-24, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  zhl1@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Public Safety
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Nursing Outlook
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210964/cdc_210964_DS1.pdf
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