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  • Practice Guidelines

    Policy brief: Nurse fatigue, sleep, and health, and ensuring patient and public safety

    Nursing Outlook
    Vol. 67Issue 5p615–619Published in issue: September, 2019
    • Claire C. Caruso
    • Carol M. Baldwin
    • Ann Berger
    • Eileen R. Chasens
    • James Cole Edmonson
    • Barbara Holmes Gobel
    • and others
    Cited in Scopus: 20
      Society needs critical nursing services around the clock and, as a result, nurses often work shift work and long work hours (SWLWH). These hours can prevent nurses from getting the seven or more hours of quality sleep each day that experts recommend (Watson, et al., 2015). Nurses on SWLWH are at risk for cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal and psychological disorders, cancer, type 2 diabetes, injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, all-cause mortality, adverse reproductive outcomes, and difficulty managing chronic diseases (Caruso, et al., 2017; Caruso & Waters, 2008; Gan, et al.
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