Work schedules and stress among health professionals.

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• Personal Author:
  Geiger-Brown J ; Rogers VE ; Selby V ; Trinkoff AM
• Description:
  Adverse work schedules are common for health care workers (HeWs). By necessity, they provide around-the-clock coverage, thus shiftwork is often an unavoidable component of the work schedule. In addition to shift work, extended work shifts, quick returns or a break of only 8 hours when changing from one shift to another, mandatory overtime, on-call, and working without breaks are common to maintain staffing levels among registered nurses (RNs). Physicians also have severely extended workdays during their training years. The effect of these schedules is often physical and mental fatigue, which has both short- and longterm effects on the health and safety of HeWs, as well as consequences for patient safety. This chapter will describe the relationship between work schedules and adverse outcomes in HeWs, including the role of both person and system factors in moderating the scheduling effects, and will describe the role of sleep as the critical mechanism for reducing the impact of adverse work schedules on outcomes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aging Fatigue Health Personnel Men Mental Disorders Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Shift Work Schedule Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders Staff Development Stress, Psychological Women Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Medical-personnel; Health-care-personnel; Workers; Work-environment; Humans; Men; Women; Shift-work; Shift-workers; Nurses; Nursing; Training; Mental-fatigue; Mental-stress; Fatigue; Physical-reactions; Safety-measures; Sleep-deprivation; Psychological-fatigue; Age-groups
• ISBN:
  9781604565003
• Publisher:
  Nova Science Publishers, Inc
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  127-140
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041999
• Citation:
  Handbook of stress and burnout in health care, 3rd edition, Halbesleben JRB, ed., NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2008 Jan; :127-140
• Editor(s):
  Halbesleben JRB
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services ; Wholesale and Retail Trade ; Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  University of Maryland - Baltimore
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Handbook of stress and burnout in health care
• End Date:
  20100830
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248195/cdc_248195_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]