x
Filter:
Filters applied
- AAN News & Opinion
- Baldwin, Carol MRemove Baldwin, Carol M filter
Publication Date
Please choose a date range between 2017 and 2019.
AAN News & Opinion
2 Results
- Practice Guidelines
Policy brief: Nurse fatigue, sleep, and health, and ensuring patient and public safety
Nursing OutlookVol. 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: 20Society 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. - Article American Academy of Nursing on Policy
Position statement: Reducing fatigue associated with sleep deficiency and work hours in nurses
Nursing OutlookVol. 65Issue 6p766–768Published in issue: November, 2017- Claire C. Caruso
- Carol M. Baldwin
- Ann Berger
- Eileen R. Chasens
- Carol Landis
- Nancy S. Redeker
- and others
Cited in Scopus: 42The 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. Working at night and irregular hours compromise human physiology dictated by the need for sleep and circadian rhythms.
